Local cooperation.-Fully complied with. Terminal facilities.-Besides a car-ferry slip, there are numerous wharves for handling coal, building materials, and miscellaneous commodities. The city of Marinette has provided a public wharf. The facilities are considered fairly adequate for existing commerce, except that there is need for a public wharf owned by the city of Menominee with warehouse and railway connection. Operations and results during fiscal year.-Operations consisted of dredging 17,500 cubic yards of material for restoration of project depth at a cost of $5,601.21. Repairing and reinforcing substructure and constructing concrete superstructure on 880 linear feet of the south pier, in progress at the close of the previous fiscal year, was completed at a cost of $45,631.43. All work was done by hired labor and use of Government plant. The total cost was $51,232.64 for maintenance. The total net expenditures were $34,344.19. Condition at end of fiscal year.-The project in effect prior to the modification of March 2, 1945, was completed in 1938. No work will be necessary at the present time, to provide a depth of 12 feet in the extension of the channel to the vicinity of the Marinette Yacht Club as project depth or more is now available. The entrance piers were completed in 1884 and are in generally good condition, except that the inner 525 feet of the south pier requires extensive repairs. The dredging of the channel below the Marinette municipal wharf and enlarging the turning basin were completed in 1938. The inner 654 feet of the north pier is no longer essential for the preservation of the channel and is therefore maintained only for a length of about 1,216 feet. The controlling depths at low-water datum at the close of the fiscal year were 21 feet in the channel to the Marinette municipal wharf and in the turning basin, except in the southerly 125 feet of the basin, where it shoals to about 11 feet along the extreme southerly limit. The channel above the municipal wharf has depths of 12 feet or more for a distance of 2,500 feet to the vicinity of the Marinette Yacht Club. The river is available for rafting and logging for about 102 miles above its mouth. The costs under the existing project were $149,504.49 for new work and $455,523.82 for maintenance, a total of $605,028.31. The total expenditures were $606,404.01. Proposed operations.-The balance unexpended at the end of the fiscal year ($13,872.77) plus an additional amount anticipated to be allotted will be applied as follows: Maintenance: Operation of U. S. dipper dredge Kewaunee, September- Riprap and refill piers with United States plant, August Total $12, 622.77 3,750.00 16, 372. 77 Dredging is required annually for maintenance of project dimensions of channel. The piers require riprap. Repairs are necessary to the inner end of the south pier. The additional sum of $52,500 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, as follows: Maintenance: Operation of U. S. dipper dredge Kewaunee during fall of Riprap piers with United States plant during the fall of Reinforce substructure and build stone superstructure on Total $14,500 7,500 30, 500 52,500 Less reimbursements collected Balance unexpended June 30, 1945 $2,776.90 $34, 344. 19 13, 872. 77 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending 1 Exclusive of available funds. 3. GREEN BAY HARBOR, WIS. 52, 500.00 Location. Located at the mouth of the Fox River, at the head of Green Bay, distant about 180 miles from Milwaukee, Wis., via Sturgeon Bay Canal, and about 49 miles southwesterly from Menominee Harbor, Mich. and Wis. (See U. S. Lake Survey Chart 725.) Previous projects.-Adopted by River and Harbor Act of June 23, 1866. This project was modified by the River and Harbor Acts of June 23, 1874; July 13, 1892; and June 3, 1896. For further details see page 1934 of Annual Report of 1915 and page 1431, Annual Report for 1938. Existing project. This provides for an outer channel in Green Bay about 10 miles long and 22 feet deep, from that depth in the bay to the mouth of Fox River, varying in width from 500 feet at the outer end to 300 feet at the river mouth, including widening of the bend outside of Tail Point Light; for protecting the portion through Grassy Island, about 700 feet long, on the east side by a stone-filled timber pile revetment capped with concrete superstructure; for straightening the channel from the inner end of Grassy Island to the river mouth; for widening the channel in Fox River through the city of Green Bay by the removal of shoals at the mouth of East River and between the two upper railroad bridges to a depth of 22 feet; for a turning basin 22 feet deep at the mouth of East River; for a turning basin 20 feet deep above the Chicago & North Western Railway bridge near the southern limits of the city of Green Bay: for an inner channel in the river 150 feet wide and 18 feet deep extending upstream about 31⁄2 miles from the latter turning basin to De Pere, terminating in another turning basin 18 feet deep with sufficient area to accommodate 500-foot vessels. The project depths are referred to low-water datum for Lake Michigan, which is 578.5 feet above mean tide at New York. The fluctuations of water level are seasonal changes of about one-half foot above or below the annual mean stage, and extreme fluctuations of a temporary nature, due to wind and barometric pressure, of about 212 feet above or below the mean level prevailing at the time. The estimate of cost for new work for the entire project, revised in 1945, was $1,765,000, exclusive of amounts expended on previous projects but including $70,000 contributed and $30,000 to be contributed by local interests. The latest (1945) approved estimate for annual cost for maintenance for the entire project is $30,000. The existing project was authorized by the following river and harbor acts: 1 Completed under previous projects. 2 Contain latest published maps. Documents Annual Report, 1867, p. 70. 1892. H. Doc. No. 522, 61st Cong., 2d sess Rivers and Harbors Committee Doc Rivers and Harbors Committee Doc. Included in the Public Works Administration program, Jan. 3, 1934. Local cooperation. The act of March 2, 1945, provided that local interests furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, and rights-of-way and spoil disposal areas for the initial work and for subsequent maintenance as required and contribute $30,000 toward the cost of dredging the turning basin at the mouth of East River. Negotiations for compliance are in progress. All prior requirements have been complied with. Terminal facilities.-There are numerous wharves for the handling of coal, petroleum products, grain, pulpwood, wood pulp, sulfur, cement, building materials, and miscellaneous commodities located on this waterway._ Green Bay has provided a municipal wharf open to the public. These facilities are considered adequate for existing commerce. Operations and results during the fiscal year.-Operations consisted of dredging 124,500 cubic yards of material for restoration of project depth, by hired labor and use of Government plant, at a cost of $26,402.08 for maintenance. The total net expenditures were $26,304.84. Condition at end of fiscal year. The project in effect prior to the modification of March 2, 1945, was completed in 1938. No work has been done on the last modification of the project providing for a turning basin at the mouth of East River. Deepening and widening the outer channel was completed in 1936. The channel in Fox River through the city of Green Bay was completed in 1935. The turning basin above the Chicago & North Western Railway bridge was completed in 1938. The inner channel and turning basin was completed in 1926. The east revetment at Grassy Island, built in 1869, is in good condition. The west revetment was removed in 1935. The controlling depth at low-water datum at the close of the fiscal year was 22 feet in the outer channel and in the channel through the city of Green Bay, 20 feet in turning basin above railway bridge, and 17 feet in the inner channel, including the turning basin at De Pere. The head of deep-water navigation is at De Pere. The costs under the existing project were as follows: The expenditures were $1,263,089.48 regular funds and $940,800 public-work funds, a total of $2,203,889.48. In addition $70,000 contributed funds were expended on new work. Proposed operations.-The balance unexpended at the end of the fiscal year ($36,433.39) will be applied to maintenance dredging of outer and inner channels by contract, July-September 1945. Dredging is required annually for maintenance of project dimensions of channel. The additional sum of $35,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, for maintenance dredging by contract or with U. S. dipper dredge Kewaunee during the summer and fall of 1946. Cost and financial summary Cost of new work to June 30, 1945 Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945 Undistributed costs June 30, 1945 $2,075, 691. 08 600, 213. 65 2,675, 904.73 3, 877.43 2, 679, 782. 16 2, 679, 782. 16 36, 433. 39 2,716, 215. 55 Amount (estimated) required to be appropriated for completion of existing project 1 56, 000. 00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending 35, 000. 00 1 Exclusive of available funds and exclusive of $30,000 to be contributed by local interests. |