1st Session THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSMITTING DIV. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS ON REVIEW OF REPORTS HERETOFORE SUBMITTED ON COAN RIVER, VA., WITH TWO ILLUSTRATIONS Hon. J. J. MANSFIELD, WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington, May 11, 1937. Chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors, MY DEAR MR. MANSFIELD: 1. The Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, by a resolution adopted June 15, 1936, requested the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to review the reports on Coan River, Va., submitted in House Document No. 1457, Sixty-third Congress, third session, and subsequent reports submitted February 1, 1935, and March 3, 1936, with a view to determining if the recommendations heretofore made should be modified in any way at this time. I enclose herewith the report of the Board in response thereto. 2. Coan River is a tidal inlet on the westerly side of the Potomac River, 102 miles below Washington, D. C., and 8 miles above the junction of the Potomac with Chesapeake Bay. No project for its improvement has been authorized by Congress. A natural channel 12 feet or more in depth extends from deep water in the Potomac 41⁄2 miles up the river. The mean tidal range is 1.4 feet. The improvement now desired is a channel from 150 to 300 feet wide and 14 feet deep, extending 1% miles up the Coan River to the site of a proposed terminal at Cowarts on the north side of the inlet, with a turning basin at the end of the channel. The purpose of the desired improve |