IMPROVEMENTS OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN THE BUFFALO, N. Y., DISTRICT The district comprises a portion of northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, and western and northern New York, embracing the United States waters of Lake Erie, exclusive of the western end, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River, with their tributary drainage basins from and including Sandusky Bay, Ohio, to the international boundary line east of Frontier, N. Y. District engineer: Col. Herbert D. Vogel, Corps of Engineers to July 5, 1949, and Col. Frank H. Forney, Corps of Engineers, since that date. Division engineer of the Great Lakes Division, Chicago, Ill., comprising the Duluth, Minn., Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago, Ill., Detroit, Mich., and Buffalo, N. Y., districts: Col. Dabney O. Elliott, Corps of Engineers, to July 31, 1949, and Col. John R. Hardin, Corps of Engineers, since that date. Location. This harbor is located in the southeasterly portio of Sandusky Bay, 55 miles westerly from Cleveland, Ohio. (Se U. S. Lake Survey Chart No. 365.) Previous projects.-Adopted by River and Harbor Acts of Jun 11, 1844; June 23, 1866; March 3, 1873; July 5, 1884; August 11 1888; and August 18, 1894. For further details, see page 1960 Annual Report for 1915, and page 1574 of Annual Report for 1939 Existing project. This provides for the following: (a) An outer channel 400 feet wide and 21 feet deep from dee water in Lake Erie through Sandusky Bay, a distance of abou 32 miles, to the city water-front docks. (b) A channel along the water front about 7,800 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 22 feet deep ending in a turning basin generally 80 feet wide and 22 feet deep, and a dike constructed with the es cavated rock on the north side of the channel and basin. (c) Maintaining a channel to a depth of 22 feet from the turr ing basin northward about 3,540 feet, that portion opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad coal wharf to a width of 350 feet, and nort thereof to a width of 400 feet; thence 300 feet wide northeastwar through Sandusky Bay about 7,700 feet, to a junction with th straight channel; no dredging to be done within 50 feet of th face of the wharf. (d) Protection works consisting of a stone jetty on the easter! side of the channel, extending northeasterly from Cedar Point, distance of 6,000 feet, with suitable pierhead; a short stone spu at Cedar Point ;and revetment of the slope adjacent to the channe in the vicinity of the inner front light with a brush-and-stor mattress. The project depth is referred to low-water datum for Lake Erie which is 570.5 feet above mean tide at New York. Ordinary fluc tuations of water level are from 3.5 feet above to 0.5 foot below low-water datum, and extreme fluctuations, produced by wind and other causes, are from 6 feet above to 2.5 feet below that plane. The estimate of cost for new work, revised in 1935, was $2,690,000 (including $275,000 contributed by local interests), exclusive of amounts expended on previous projects. The latest (1948) approved estimate of annual cost of maintenance is $92,000. The existing project was authorized by the following river and harbor acts: Acts Mar. 3, 1899 June 13, 1902 Mar. 2, 1919 Jan. 21, 1927 Mar. 2, 1945 Work authorized Construction of channel protection works............-- Widening of straight and dock channels and deepen- Extension of east jetty to total length of 6,000 feet, Deepening of dock channel to 22 feet.. Enlargement of turning basin and construction of Maintenance of bay channel to 22 feet; and elimina- Included in Public Works Administration program, Nov. 15, 1933. Local cooperation.-Fully complied with. Documents H. Doc. 362, 55th Cong., 2d sess. and Annual Report, 1998, p. 2708. H. Doc. 120, 56th Cong., 2d sess. H. Doc. 982, 64th Cong., 1st sess. H. Doc. 584, 69th Cong., 2d sess. Terminal facilities.-There is an extensive coal terminal, consisting of three docks, adjacent to the turning basin at the westerly end of the dock channel open to shippers of coal. Located on the dock channel are 10 private terminals for the handling of sand and gravel, fish, miscellaneous freight, and passengers. The city of Sandusky owns a pier and two small boat basins. A yacht-club dock and several other privately owned servicing and storage docks are for recreational and other small craft. Two docks for passenger boats are located at Cedar Point. The facilities are considered adequate for the existing commerce. (See Lake Series No. 8, revised 1939, Corps of Engineers.) Operations and results during fiscal year.-Government plant and hired labor removed 255,749 cubic yards of material for restoration of project depth in the straight, bay, and outer bar channels at a cost of $65,586.87 for maintenance. The expenditures were $65,586.87. Condition at end of fiscal year. The existing project was completed in 1935. The protecting works are generally in poor condition. The east jetty has settled from its original elevation of 4.3 feet to about 1 or 2 feet above low-water datum and in some places has settled to below low-water datum. The stone in the dike has disintegrated and settled. In many places the dike is down to lowwater datum. The controlling depth in the straight, outer bar, and bay channels is 21 feet and in the dock channel and turning basin 20 feet at low-water datum. The total costs and expenditures of the existing project were $3,678,333.77, of which $2,597,258.21, including $599,500 Public Works funds, was for new work and $1,081,075.56 for maintenance. In addition, $325,000 was expended from contributed funds for new work. Proposed operations.-An anticipated allotment of $66,000 will be applied as follows: Maintenance: Dredging the dock, straight, bay, and outer bar channels and turning basin by United States hopper dredge, September and October 1950 $55,000 Sweeping channels and turning basin and removing obstructions by Government plant, July to October 1950 and May 1951 $11,000 66,000 The sum of $75,000 can be profitably expended for the following schedule of work during fiscal year 1952 for Maintenance: Dredging the dock, straight, outer bar and bay channels, and the turning basin by United States hopper dredge, summer 1951 .... Sweeping channels and removing obstructions by Government plant, summer and fall 1951 Total $65,000 10,000 75,000 1 Exclusive of $325,000 expended from contributed funds for new work. 2. HURON HARBOR, OHIO Location. On the south shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Huron River, 47 miles westerly from Cleveland, Ohio. (See U. S. Lake Survey Chart No. 363.) Previous projects.-Adopted by River and Harbor Acts of May 20, 1826, and September 19, 1890. For further details see page 1961 of Annual Report for 1915, and page 1576 of Annual Report for 1938. Existing project. This provides for a pier 3,170 feet long on the west side of the entrance channel, the shoreward 1,970 feet consisting of timber cribs with concrete superstructure and the remaining 1,200 feet of rubble-mound construction, with a timbercrib concrete superstructure pierhead at its outer end; for a rubble-mound east breakwater 1,450 feet long, with a concrete light foundation at its outer end, founded on the rubble-mound; for a steel-sheet pile shore protection extending 200 feet westerly from near the shoreward end of the west pier; for a channel with a depth of 26 feet in the hard material and 25 feet in soft material extending from deep water in the lake to the south side of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co.'s slip 1, at the entrance of the river, the channel to be 400 feet wide in the lake and 300 feet wide inward of the outer pierhead, narrowing to 250 feet at the head of the channel; and for the enlargement but not maintenance of the turning basin, 19 feet deep, opposite the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co.'s ore dock. The project depth is referred to low-water datum for Lake Erie, which is 570.5 feet above mean tide at New York. Ordinary fluctuations of water level are from 3.5 feet above to 0.5 foot below low-water datum, and extreme fluctuations, produced by wind and other causes, are from 5.5 feet above to 2.5 feet below that plane. The estimate of cost of new work, revised in 1935, was $1,152,000, exclusive of amount expended on previous projects. The latest (1948) approved estimate for annual cost of maintenance is $55,000. The existing project was authorized by the following river and harbor acts: Acts Mar. 3, 1905 Mar. 2, 1919 Aug. 30, 19351 Work authorized Extension of west pier; construction of east break- Extension of west pier with pierhead at its outer end; Documents H. Doc. 122, 58th Cong., 2d sess. H. Doc. 5, 63d Cong., 1st sess. H. Doc. 478, 72d Cong., 2d sess. (Contains latest published map.) Partially included in Public Works Administration program, Nov. 15, 1933. Local cooperation.-Fully complied with. Terminal facilities.-The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. has deepened and maintained the channel above the limits of the Federal improvement. This company has a dock with a frontage of over 1 mile, which affords facilities for handling iron ore and coal. The Eastern States Cooperative Milling Corp. has a dock with a frontage of approximately 800 feet, adjacent to the ore dock. Three fish docks are private. A number of privately owned servicing and storage docks are for recreational and other small craft. The town of Huron owns a dock at the foot of South Street, which is open to the public. The facilities are regarded as adequate for the existing commerce. (See Lake Series No. 8, revised 1939, Corps of Engineers.) Operations and results during fiscal year.-Government plant and hired labor removed 178,065 cubic yards of material from the channel for restoration of project depth at cost of $46,868.09. Repairs to 250 feet of the west pier, by contract, were completed at a cost of $94,052.16. The total cost for the year was $140,920.25 for maintenance. The total expenditures were $142,068.25. Condition at end of fiscal year.-The existing project was completed in 1940. A length of 250 linear feet of the west pier has been reinforced and repaired with steel sheet piling and concrete. An additional 1,700 feet of the west pier and portions of the east |