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... width is about 3,000 feet with depths varying from 10 to 28 feet at low water . The low water flow is about 70,000 second - feet . During annual freshets , ordinarily occurring in May , June , and July , the river rises to an average ...
... width is about 3,000 feet with depths varying from 10 to 28 feet at low water . The low water flow is about 70,000 second - feet . During annual freshets , ordinarily occurring in May , June , and July , the river rises to an average ...
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... width and are covered with a dense jungle of timber to within a mile and a half of their extreme ends except for a strip of sand dunes and beaches averaging a half - mile in width on the sides exposed to the ocean . The entrance throat ...
... width and are covered with a dense jungle of timber to within a mile and a half of their extreme ends except for a strip of sand dunes and beaches averaging a half - mile in width on the sides exposed to the ocean . The entrance throat ...
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... width of 600 feet . In the latter part of January 1931 a survey disclosed considerable shoal- ing , there being a channel 33 feet deep for a width of about 200 feet and a controlling depth of 30 feet over a width of 600 feet . The ...
... width of 600 feet . In the latter part of January 1931 a survey disclosed considerable shoal- ing , there being a channel 33 feet deep for a width of about 200 feet and a controlling depth of 30 feet over a width of 600 feet . The ...
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... Width 100 200 400 28 . 24 . In other words , there has always been a channel 30 feet deep since 1925 , but at one time at least this depth was available over a width of ly 100 feet . Such a channel is not usable by large vessels in a ...
... Width 100 200 400 28 . 24 . In other words , there has always been a channel 30 feet deep since 1925 , but at one time at least this depth was available over a width of ly 100 feet . Such a channel is not usable by large vessels in a ...
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... width from deep water in Long Island Sound to off Orienta Point , thence 80 feet bottom width following the lines of the then existing project which had been adopted by the River and Harbor Act of July 25 1912 ( H. Doc . No. 1087 , 61st ...
... width from deep water in Long Island Sound to off Orienta Point , thence 80 feet bottom width following the lines of the then existing project which had been adopted by the River and Harbor Act of July 25 1912 ( H. Doc . No. 1087 , 61st ...
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Page 17 - Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 13, 1902, be and is hereby requested to review the report of the Chief of Engineers on the Ouachita River and tributaries, Arkansas and Louisiana, submitted as Senate Document No.
Page 44 - ... 3. After due consideration of these reports, I concur in the views and recommendations of the Board.
Page 4 - Resolved by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, United States, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 13...
Page 15 - February 9, 1934, requested the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to review the reports on the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Kern Rivers, Calif., submitted in House Document No.
Page 25 - Resolved by the Committee on Public Works of the United States Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the Rivers and Harbors...
Page 21 - December 6, 1941, and prior reports, with a view to determining if it is advisable to modify the existing project in any way at this time.
Page 17 - Above this point the bayou has a depth of 16 feet for o\ miles, 8 feet for 5 miles more, and 4 feet for 7 miles farther. The present project, as adopted by the river and harbor act of June 25. 1910. calls for dredging a channel 4 feet deep and 50 feet wide from the mouth of Turtle Bayou across Turtle Bay to the foot of Browns Pass, near Anahuac. at a cost of $10,000.
Page 10 - March 2, 1945, provided that in lieu of conditions heretofore prescribed, local interests shall furnish, free of cost to the United States, suitable areas for the disposal of dredged materials...
Page 11 - And if the consideration of such works and projects the Board shall have in view the amount and character of commerce Existing or reasonably prospective, which will be benefited by the improvement and the relations of the ultimate cost of such work, both as to the cost of construction and maintenance, to the public commercial interests involved...
Page 4 - All depths are referred to mean lower low water. The tidal range between mean lower low water and mean higher high water at the...