The estimated cost of this improvement was $60,000, of which $15,000 have been appropriated. During the past fiscal year the funds available have been applied to widening the channel, which is now 440 feet wide and 12 feet deep. Fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-two cubic yards of material were removed from the channel during the year. The amount required to complete the present project is $45,000, of which $25,000 could be profitably expended in the next year. July 1, 1884, amount available $664 91 Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884... 5,000 00 5,664 91 July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.... 4,872 13 July 1, 1885, amount available .... 792 78 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. 45,000.00 25,000 00 (See Appendix D 9.) 10. Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut.-The first project for the improvement of this harbor was submitted in December, 1883. It provided for dredging a channel about 3,300 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 6 feet deep at mean low water, from deep water in the harbor up Cedar Creek, and for constructing a riprap breakwater about half a mile long from Fairweather Island to the mainland. The estimated cost of this -improvement was $80,000, of which $20,000 were appropriated by act of Congress approved July 5, 1884. During the past year a channel 35 feet wide, 2,700 feet in length, and 6 feet deep has been dredged, half the cost of which was paid for by the manufacturers interested in having the dredging done, and the breakwater is under contract. No part of the breakwater is finished, but for four-fifths of its length, beginning at Fairweather Island, it has been built to a height of about 5 feet. Under the present contract it will be completed to within about 4 feet of its proposed final height; $20,000 can be profitably expended in dredging and finishing the breakwater duringt he next fiscal year. Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884 ........ July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1804.. July 1, 1855, outstanding liabilities... July 1, 1885, amonnt available $20,000 00 $7,170 61 10, 027 24 9,972 76 Amount estimated required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix D 10.) 60,000 00 20,000 00 11. Southport Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor is a tidal inlet opening into a broad bay. The depth of water to the wharves, about threefourths of a mile up the inlet, was originally less than 2 feet at low water. Between 1829 and 1837 a breakwater and a dike were built east of the channel to protect it from drifting sand. The present plan of improvement for this harbor, adopted in 1876 and modified in 1880, embraces the repair of the breakwater and the dike, and the dredging of a channel 100 feet wide and 4 feet deep at low wa ter from Long Island Sound to the village. The channel has only been excavated to a width of 95 feet from the sound to the south end of the breakwater, 80 feet wide from there to White Rock, and 50 to 60 feet wide above White Rock. Although the full width has not been obtained, the improvement may be considered essentially completed. During the past year no money was available and no work was done. No further appropriation is needed at present. July 1, 1884, amount available.... July 1, 1885, amount available.. (See Appendix D 11.) $159 07 159 07 12. Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut.-This is a narrow tidal stream about 3 miles long, in which the depth available from the sound to Norwalk was originally 1 foot at mean low water. The original project for the improvement of this harbor, adopted in 1872, contemplated making a channel 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep from Gregory's Point to the Norwalk wharves. There is now a channel nearly 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep from Gregory's Point to the Railroad Bridge at South Norwalk, and from 60 to 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep from South Norwalk to Norwalk. A contract is now in force to give the full width of 100 feet between Gregory's Point and South Norwalk, the depth to be 8 feet at mean low water. Operations during the past fiscal year have been confined to dredging below South Norwalk. The work under this contract will be completed early in the coming fiscal year. The original estimate of the cost of making this improvement was $81,000, of which $73,000 have been already appropriated; $10,000 are needed for the completion of the present project, and this amount could be profitably expended in a single year. July 1, 1884, amount available .......... Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884 . July 1, 1885, amonnt expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884... July 1, 1885, outstanding liabilities. July 1, 1885, amount available...... [Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project $425 18 5,000 00 5,425 18 $184 77 1,527 07 1,711 84 3,713 34 10,000 00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 10,000 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix D 12.) 13. Port Chester Harbor, New York.-This harbor consists of a bay opening into Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Byram River and the lower part of the river itself, which is navigable for about a mile above its mouth. The channel from the bay up to the wharves had originally a depth in places of only a foot at low water; and it was further obstructed by Salt Rock, which projected above the low-water level, and Sunken Rock, which had 5.7 feet upon it at low water. The scheme for the improvement of this harbor, adopted in 1871, provided for the removal of these rocks to a depth of 9 feet at low water, and the construction of a breakwater on the bar at the mouth. The estimated cost of this work was $96,632, of which $27,000 have been appropriated. Salt Rock has been removed. In June, 1884, it was decided to dredge the channel from the mouth to the wharves to a depth of 3 feet at low water. Operations during the past fiscal year have been limited to dredging, and a channel from 60 to 100 feet wide and 3 feet deep at low water has been obtained from the mouth of the river to the wharves; 55,062 cubic yards of material were removed during the year. The amount required for the completion of the project is estimated to be $69,632. The balance on hand will be applied, in accordance with the original project, to the removal of a part of Sunken Rock; $20,000 can be profitably expended in this work and in the construction of the breakwater during the coming fiscal year. July 1, 1884, amount available July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.... $16,325 80 11,412 62 4,913 18 69,632 00 July 1, 1885, amount available..... Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... (See Appendix D 13.) 20,000 00 14. New Rochelle Harbor, New York.-The project for the improvement of this harbor in 1881, provided for the removal of the rocks which obstructed its channel, and for the dredging of the channel lying between Hunter's Island and Flat Island to a depth of 6 feet where the depth varied from 0 to 8 feet; $40,825 was the estimated cost of the comple tion of the entire project, of which amount $35,000 have been appropriated. With this the channel between Hunter's and Flat islands have been completed, Corning Rock has been removed to a depth of 12 feet below low water, and a large bowlder has been removed from near David's Island Wharf. The work still remaining to be done is the removal of a rock known as Rock Cand the excavation of 300 cubic yards of rock at the mouth of the Glen Island Channel. The latter rock was to have been removed under contract dated July 31, 1881, for the sum of $9,000. The contractor, however, failed to remove it the proper depth; and, after having his contract extended twice, has abandoned the work. No money has been paid him under the contract, and the $9,000 forfeited and unexpended is available for other works of improvement in the harbor. No work has been done during the past year. The estimated amount required for the completion of the original project is $5,825, which could profitably be expended in a single year. July 1, 1884, amount available. July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.. $18,314 09 103 48 July 1, 1885, amount available............ 18,210 61 (See Appendix D 14.) Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project. 15. Echo Harbor, New Rochelle, New York.-The channel of this harbor was originally obstructed by two reefs, known as Start Rock and Sheepshead Rock, the former exposed at low water, and the latter with a least depth over it of 1 foot at mean low water. In 1876 a project was adopted for the removal of these two reefs, the former to 6 feet, the lat ter to 9 feet below low water. Subsequently the project was modified by increasing the required depth over Start Rock to 7 feet. The estimated cost of the whole modified project was $38,955.38, of which $22,000 have been appropriated. Start Rock has been entirely removed to a depth of 7 feet and a part of Sheepshead Rock to 9 feet. No work has been done during the past year, the available funds not being sufficient to continue operations on Sheepshead Rock. The amount required, according to the estimate, for the entire completion of the work is $17,000, the whole of which could be profitably expended in one year. July 1, 1884, amount available.... July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884.... $3,366 37 4.50 3,361 87 July 1, 1885, amount available..... (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 Submitted in compliance with requirements of section 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. 17,000 00 17, 000 00 (See Appendix D 15.) 16. Mamaroneck Harbor, New York. This harbor is a shallow inlet, opening into a broad bay. Several dangerous rocks lie in or near the channel. In 1882 a project of improvement was adopted, which provided for the removal of one rock to 4 feet and of five other rocks to 7 feet below low water, for building a sand-catch dike near Grassy Knoll, and for dredg ing a channel 100 feet wide and 7 feet deep to the old steamboat wharf, and 80 feet wide and 4 feet deep from that wharf up to the village. The estimated cost of this improvement was $43,000, of which $15,000 have been appropriated. With this amount Round Rock has been removed to a depth of 4 feet and Bush Rock and Inner Steamboat Rock to 7 feet below low water. No dredging has been done, and, for want of funds, no operations have been carried on during the past fiscal year. The estimated amount required for the completion of the project is $28,000, which could be profitably expended in a single year. July 1, 1884, amount available (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix D 16.) $301 23 301 23 28,000 00 28, 000 00 17. Greenport Harbor, New York.-This harbor, situated at the eastern end of Long Island, is exposed to easterly storms, and the anchorage-ground, which was mainly sheltered by Joshua's Point, has become so filled up by erosion of that point and by drifting sand as to be nearly useless.. In 1882 a project was adopted which provided for the construction of a breakwater 1,700 feet long extending from Joshua's Point in a southeasterly direction to the 18-foot curve, for the purpose of checking this erosion and increasing the sheltered area. The estimated cost of this work was $46,000, of which $20,000 have been appropriated. During the past year the breakwater has been extended 428 feet, which carries it into 10 feet water at low tide, and makes its total length 1,233 feet. This breakwater could be finished in a single year at an estimated cost of $26,000. July 1, 1884, amount available..... Amount appropriated by act approved July 5, 1884. July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884 July 1, 1885, amount available.... $819 27 10,000 00 10,819 27 10,518 49 300 78 26, 000 00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... (See Appendix D 17.) 26,000 00 18. Port Jefferson Harbor, New York.-This harbor is a large, deep bay, with a narrow entrance, through which the channel depth was originally but 3 feet. The project for its improvement, adopted in 1871 and modified in 1877, provided for making a channel at the entrance 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep at mean low water, by dredging through the bar and by protecting the cut so made by two jetties. The estimated cost of this improvement was $79,000, all of which has been appropriated. The channel has been excavated to the full depth and width proposed, and the east jetty has been completed for a distance of 1,390 feet, which carries it out to a depth of 12 feet at mean low water; the west jetty has been completed for 940 feet, which carries it out to a depth of 63 feet. It is possible time may show that the project, which now appears to be complete, must be further extended to secure a permanent channel. No appropriation is asked for at present. July 1, 1884, amount available July 1, 1885, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of outstanding liabilities July 1, 1884..... July 1, 1885, amount available (See Appendix D 18.) $1, 119 63 644 57 475 06 19. Flushing Bay, New York.-The original depth in the channel leading to Flushing, Long Island, was less than 4 feet at mean low water. The first project for the improvement of this bay and harbor, adopted in 1879, provided for the formation of a tidal basin by means of dikes, which, by its filling and emptying through one channel, would maintain a channel depth of 6 feet at mean low water, and possibly more, after once being dredged. The estimated cost of this work was $173,500, of which $60,000 have been appropriated. Of the 12,700 feet of diking proposed, 3,075 feet have been built on the west side of the channel through the bay, and the channels through the bay and up the east and west branches of Flushing Creek have been dredged to a depth of 6 feet; the former twice. |