Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Volume 1, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - Harbors |
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1st sess accounts payable June accounts receivable Amount allotted Annual Report appropriated to June Arkansas River available June 30 Balance available June balance June 30 Balance unexpended July Bayou Chief of Engineers Condition at end Cong Connecticut River Cost and financial Cost of maintenance cost of permanent Creek cubic yards dredging end of fiscal ending June 30 Exclusive of available expended in fiscal feet deep financial summary Cost fiscal year 1944 Fiscal year ending Flood Control Act Gross amount expended Harbor Act hired labor Intracoastal Waterway jetty June 22 latest published map maintenance to June mean low water miles Minus accounts payable mouth Operations and results payable June 30 profitably expended project dimensions Report for 1938 results during fiscal River and Harbor tidal range Total amount appropriated Total cost Total expended total expenditures turning basin U. S. Coast Unexpended balance June unexpended June 30 waterway width year.-The existing project
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Page 5 - War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 5 - ... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Page 44 - ... hold and save the United States free from claims for damages resulting from the improvement; and give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will provide and maintain suitable terminal facilities open to all on equal terms.
Page 230 - Location.— This waterway consists of that portion of the New York State barge canal system extending from the Hudson River at Waterford to Oswego Harbor, NY, on Lake Ontario, and is usually referred to as the Erie and Oswego Canals. Its length is 184 miles. Authorization.- — 1935 and 1945 River and Harbor Acts.
Page 483 - Existing project. — This provides for a channel 12 feet deep at mean low water and 200 feet wide from the gorge in the inlet to the federally improved channel in Core Sound, a distance of about 1 mile.
Page 12 - The jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, derived from the Federal laws enacted for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States, is limited and directed to such control as may be necessary to protect the public right of navigation.
Page 709 - A channel through the jetties 26 feet in depth, not less than 200 feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central deptH of 30 feet, without regard to width," and " a channel having a navigable depth of 26 feet," through the shoal at the head of South Pass, and '; through the Pass itself," was maintained throughont the year without the aid of dredging, and as required by law.
Page 214 - Hudson River empties into the Upper Bay of New York Harbor at the Battery, New York City. The section included under this title extends from deep water in Upper New York Bay to just north of Harlem River (Spuyten Duyvil Creek) a distance of about 14.5 miles.
Page 863 - States of $540,000 for new work and $30,000 annually for maintenance, subject to the provisions that local interests provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and spoil-disposal areas for initial work and for subsequent maintenance, as required...
Page 986 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...