The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-23
250%o INCREASE IN
FUNDS ALLOTTED
FOR WATERWAYS
Hatteras. Fairfield, Ocracoke and
Pasquo+ank County Share in
increased Appropriations
This Year.

Wilmington. - Funds appro-
priated by Congress for drainage,
navigation and flood control prof.
ects in Coastal North Carolina for
the current fiscal year total two
and half times the sum allotted
for last year, reports Colonel r.
L. Hill, District Engineer of the
Wilmington District, Corps of
Engineers.
The Congress has allotted some
$2,514,500 for new work and
maintenance for the year ending
next June 80. Last year the Dis I.
trict was given $1,130,250. This
latter sum included only one new
work project-$195,000 to aid in
developing a drainage district of
1880 areas of land at Fairfield
in Hyde County. This money, how
ever, was carried over to the cur
rent year because local interests
at Fairfield could not get together
on certain conditions relating to
operation and maintenance of the
project. Land owners have been
asked to agree to an assessment
of so much an acre to carry on
the project. Some are willing and
others are not.
The total for this year includes
81 ,036, 900 for maintaining naviga-
BILE waters and the operating of
five 81 bridges and three (3)
locks. The remainder, S., Ats, 500 in
cluudes $4,000 for the beginning
of deepening of Wilmington Har-
Dor from 80 feet to 81 feet, and
$21 400 for surveying the upper
reaches of the Cape Fear River.
1t also includes $4,000 for
flood control work on the Pasquo-
tank River, $4,000 for increasing
the depth of Taylors Greek at
Beaufort from seven to II feet
ard widening the channel from rs
to 100 feet, 100000 for a break
water and dredging at Oriental
and $105,0OO for deepening and
widening Bardens Inlet from five
to IL feet and Is feet to 100 feet
respectively. In addition to these,
$175,000 has been earmarked to
improve Robinson Channel at Hat
teras, 100000 for Wallace Chan
mel at Ocracoke Inlet and $4,000
(maintenance)S to restore the In
tracoastal Waterway at Core
Creek to IL feet. The latter area
is subject to severe shoaling.
Final plans are being rushed to
get all of these projects underway
during the current fiscal year.
Fishing interests and other users
of the Intracoastal Waterway are
advised that Hurricanes Connie
and Diane imposed little if any
damage on the route between
Little River, S. c., and the Neuse
River, the area in the path of the
storms, the Corps of Engineers re-
ports.
A survey party with sounding
gear examined this stretch of the
waterway Immediately after the
storms passed and reported no OBJ
structions were found, a few aids
/ (markers) to navigation were
blown away and shoaling at only
three points. Shoals leaving
scant 10 feet of depth were located
near New River, the Carolina
Beach Inlet and at a point where
the channel energies from Shows
Cut to join the Cape Fear River.
Survey people say it is normal for
shoals to recur at these places and
they doubt that Connie and Diane
are to blame.
Three key members of the Dis
trict staff have been assigned to
the New England Division at Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, for Operation
Noah" emergency work in connec-
ton with the flood stricken area.
1t. Col. John H. Jackson, Assistant
District Engineer, George e. Nc
White, Mechanical Engineer, and
Clarence w. Madison, Auditor, left
last week by air for 80 to 60 days
special restoration work.