Report of the Surveys and Examinations of the Connecticut River Between Hartford, Conn., and Holyoke, Mass., Made Since 1867U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - 143 pages |
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11 feet 9 feet abutments bank boats channel Chief of Engineers cord cubic feet cubic yards cut cubic yards rock cubic yards rubble current-meter curve Depth Direction and force Distance east base east side embankment Enfield Dam Enfield Falls Enfield Rapids feet per second float foot force of wind Freshet G. K. WARREN gauge guard-lock Hartford zero Mean Height of surface high-water Hockanum River improvement integration Mean velocity ity per second June 18 low-water Mean in vertical meter miles above Hartford Millions of cubic navigation observed velocities Mean old canal plane by integration plane by observed proposed railroad-bridge River above Hartford river Direction sand Scantic River slope Springfield stream surface of water survey taken June Thompsonville Total for twelve velocities Mean velocity velocity in vertical velocity of river vertical plane Warehouse Point water above Hartford water-power west side width Windsor Locks wing-dams yards cut stone
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Page 1 - The Secretary of War has the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives, for the information of the Committee on Patents, in response to a letter of the 10th instant from Hon.
Page 52 - Dredging was done here immediately after, which increased the depth to 2^ feet. Higley's Point Bar, one and three-quarters miles above Hartford, upon which there are 2.7 feet at the lowest water. The first three of the above-named bars were improved by the United States Government in the year 1871, by the construction of wing-dams, as shown on the maps.
Page 49 - ... Connecticut River from Hartford to Holyoke. The survey of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Holyoke was commenced in the latter part of August, 1872, by a small party under Mr. William F. Dyer, civil engineer, who started the field-work at Holyoke and continued down the river to near Clncopee Village.
Page 50 - Rapids to Hartford, a distance of 10.9 miles, in which the river runs over a sandy bottom through an alluvial formation with an inclination greater than that above Enfield Dam, but still to a certain extent navigable. At the upper end of the survey the river flows over Holyoke Dam, a substantial structure of timber built upon the bed-rock of the river, having an average height of about 3d feet.
Page 46 - ... is peculiar to the locality, I am not aware. The slope of the canal has been assumed in excess of the probable requirements of navigation to provide for all contingencies, and if found more than is requisite, the total amount is so small, viz, 1.75 feet in the whole length of the canal from...
Page 52 - Locks, flows wholly through an alluvial formation. The banks appear to be nearly permanent down as far as the mouth of the Scantic River, from which point downward they are washing and caving off to some extent. For about two miles above the railroad-bridge at Hartford they are washing very badly; in some places losing probably 30 or 40 feet in a year.
Page 53 - ... feet. Just below Hartford there is a shoal called Hartford Bar, upon which there is a little over 6 feet at extreme low water. This was improved in 1871 by building a wingdam of piling about 650 feet long from the west bank, and by dredging in 1871 and 1873.
Page 14 - Holyokc can be used in any desirable improvement, I respectfully suggest that the money be partly used in publishing these maps and full report. It will be of much local value as affording exact information of the river and valley, and in the results of its...
Page 56 - ... ordinary wrought-iron coupling and abut together within it so as to make a firm joint and give an exact length of pipe to serve as a measure of depth. The head of the anger was also fitted with a corresponding thread to screw into the coupling. A wooden cross-handle was used for turning the anger and
Page 131 - ... for the latitude and longitude of Hartford. The following table has been prepared, showing the characteristics of the tides at Hartford, to which is added such particulars relating to the tides at the mouth of the river as will assist in determining the changes in the tidal wave as it progresses up the river.