Indiana Harbor connection via Grand Calumet River and Calumet River Branch
Railway bridges in Calumet-Sag improvement --.

Local cooperation.-The River and Harbor Act of January 21, 1927, modified the existing project subject to the condition that the State of Illinois transfer to the United States without cost all rights and titles in the two State-owned dams on the Illinois River. and that local interests furnish the United States without cost all necessary areas for the disposal of materials dredged in creating and maintaining the channel authorized (S. Doc. No. 130, 69th Cong., 1st sess.). By deed dated March 28, 1928, the State of Illinois transferred these locks and dams to the United States. Permission has been granted by many riparian landowners for use of their lands for the disposal of dredged materials.

The River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930, modified the existing project subject to the following provisions: That the project thus adopted shall be in all its parts a navigable waterway of the United States, forever free to the public use of all, unencumbered by any tolls or restrictions of any kind whatsoever except such as may be imposed by Congress. That the State of Illinois shall proceed, subject to the supervision and approval of all expenditures and obligations by the Secretary of War, to construct the highway bridges at Brandon Road and Marseilles Canal, to make the necessary alterations in other highway bridges across the Illinois Waterway, to make the necessary arrangements and agreements for the alterations of the railroad bridges across said waterway, and to do such other work on said waterway as the Secretary of War shall direct and the available funds of the State make possible; the bridges mentioned not to become the property of the United States, and no obligations to be incurred by the United States to maintain. operate, or replace them. That no claim shall lie against the United States because of any contractual obligations which have been or may he entered into by the State of Illinois as regards the construction of a waterway between Utica and Lake Michigan (S. Doc. No. 126, 71st Cong., 2d sess.).

The State of Illinois appropriated $20,000,000 for the construction of a waterway providing minimum 8-foot depths in channels not less than 150 feet wide, from the upper end of the Federal project on the Illinois River to Lockport. The lock and dam at Starved Rock was about 95 percent complete, the Marseilles Lock was about 95 percent, the Marseilles Canal 98 percent. Dresden Island Lock and Dam about 20 percent, Brandon Road Lock and Dam about 70 percent, and the Lockport Lock about 95 percent complete before the passage of the River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930.

The River and Harbor Act of August 30, 1935, as modified by the River and Harbor Act of June 20, 1938, provides that local interests furnish to the United States, free of cost, all necessary land to effect the improvements recommended in House Document No. 180, Seventy-third Congress, second session, and install operating machinery and place in operating condition the three drawbridges across the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal between its junction with the Calumet-Sag Channel and Lockport when directed by the Secretary of War. These requirements have been met and were accepted by the Chief of Engineers on January 30, 1935.

The River and Harbor Act of March 2, 1945, provides that local interests shall remove, reconstruct, or alter all highway bridges, which, in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers, constitute an unreasonable obstruction to navigation across the waterways as follows: the Calumet-Sag Channel and the proposed Illinois Waterway portions of the Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Grand Calumet River, and Indiana Harbor Canal; and provides further, that local interests shall furnish without cost to the United States all land and easements necessary for the execution of the project, including the necessary areas for the disposal of spoil, with the exception of such land needed for the waterway as is now occupied by abutments or railroad tracks at the approaches to railroad bridges, rights over which lands shall be acquired by the United States as an incident to the alteration of the bridges; the lands and easements to be furnished by local interests to be such as to assure the full widths of channels described as follows: enlarge the Calumet-Sag Channel to width of 160 feet and a usable depth of 9 feet; also enlarge the Grand Calumet River from its junction with the Little Calumet River to the Indiana Harbor Canal and thence north to One Hundred Forty-first Street, these widths to be available at all times for through navigation; and provides further, that the several sections of the proposed channel may be improved as separate units when considered advisable by the Chief of Engineers and when local interests shall have provided the cooperation indicated above for any unit.

Terminal facilities. Of the 13 principal cities and towns along the Illinois River, about 5 own dock frontage, more or less improved for boat landings; 4 own dock frontage with no improvements; and 4 own no frontage except at street ends.

At Peoria, the largest city on the river, there is a $400,000 modern river-rail municipal public terminal, having an available frontage of 1,100 feet; 205 feet is occupied by a dock house and 190 feet by an open dock. The dock house is served by a wharf boat 45 feet by 230 feet and an escalator capable of handling 1,000 tons a day. This terminal is served by the equivalent of a belt-line railroad. Grain elevators are available at 19 points between Grafton and Morris and there are 2 grain conveyors at Peru where grain can be loaded directly into barges. Private coal-loading terminals are located at Havana, Liverpool, and Copperas Creek. Coal-unloading terminals are located at the mouth of the Vermilion River, near La Salle, and at Ottawa; and a cement-loading plant is located at Peru. Bulk-petroleum terminals are located at Kingston Mines and at Peoria, and molasses is unloaded from barges at a terminal at Peoria. Sand and gravel plants are located at Kingston Lake, Chillicothe, Ottawa, and Joliet.

A barge-construction yard and launching ways are located at Seneca.

From the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, sand, gravel, oil, and gasoline are shipped from Lockport and petroleum products and stone from Lemont. Bulk-petroleum terminals are located at Forest View, Ill., and at California Avenue, Chicago, and a liquid industrial-chemicals terminal is located at Laramie Avenue in Stickney, Ill. A private coal-unloading terminal is located at

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Crawford Avenue, Chicago. At Western Avenue, Chicago, bulk and package freight is handled through the North Pier River barge terminal. The State of Illinois barge terminal, including a 1,500,000-bushel grain elevator, is located at Damen Avenue, Chicago, on the South Branch of the Chicago River. Two sand and gravel distribution yards are located on the Calumet-Sag Channel. A ! crude-oil-unloading terminal is located on the Little Calumet River at Riverdale, just upstream from the junction with the Sag Channel. Plans for further terminals and docks between Grafton and Chicago are under way.

Operations and results during fiscal year-New work-Alton pool.-Costs incurred were the payment of seepage and drainage damages amounting to $197,250 by hired labor.

La Grange pool.-Work preliminary to dredging was completed in Lower Pekin Bend, miles 149.3 to 150.1, at a cost of $588.73. Government costs on a new contract were $367.71. The total cost was $956.44.

Peoria pool.-Preliminary work by hired labor was completed at Vermilion Bend, miles 226-227 at a cost of $79.65. A total of 570,041 cubic yards was removed by contract at Vermilion Bend, miles 226-227 at a cost of $92,266.41. The total cost was $92,346.06.

Starved Rock pool.-Preliminary work by hired labor, miles 234.8-236.8, was carried on at a cost of $4,306.19.

Calumet-Sag Channel.-Definite project report was carried on by hired labor at a cost of $1,076.97.

Maintenance-Alton pool.-Channel dredging was done at various localities by two contract dredges. A total of 627,102 cubic yards of material was removed from 10 bars. The channel dredged had a combined length of 5 miles, an average width of 277 feet, and an average gain in depth of 5 feet. The total cost of dredging was $116,952.01. Hydrographic surveys were made at a cost of $15,648.97. Other miscellaneous costs were aids to navigation. $20,308.32, and repairs to gages, $2,401.03, all maintenance. The total cost of maintenance was $155,310.33.

La Grange pool.-Dredging operations by hired labor were conducted at a cost of $5,137.02, 3,500 cubic yards being removed. Miles 95.7-156.6 were dredged by contract. A total of 264,570 | cubic yards was removed at a cost of $60,646.30. Removal of channel obstructions, miles 80.15 to 157.7, was performed by hired labor at a cost of $7,317.24. Stone protection at mile 157.7 was placed at a cost of $3,788.37. The total was $76,888.93.

Peoria pool.-Removal of channel obstructions, miles 157.7229.6, by hired labor was carried on at a cost of $4,111.87. A total of 384,970 cubic yards was dredged by contract at a cost of $89,296.50. The total cost was $93,408.37.

Lockport pool.-A total of 12,140 cubic yards of protection stone was placed by hired labor at a cost of $53,801.31.

All pools.-Channel sweeping was carried on by hired labor at a cost of $7,779.40. Discharge observations were taken throughout the year at different points on the river and gages were read

and miscellaneous surveys made by hired labor at a cost of $87,607.68. The total cost was $95,387.08.

Operating and care of locks and dams.-The locks and dams were operated as required and the necessary repairs made thereto and to the appurtenant structures at a cost of $361,703.80.

The total cost was $1,132,435.48, of which $295,935.66 was for new work, $474,796.02 for maintenance, and $361,703.80 for operating and care of locks and dams. The total expenditures were $1,118,846.83.

Condition at end of fiscal year.-The existing project was approximately 48 percent complete. The three passing places in the Calumet-Sag and dredging to widen the channel in the Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers are complete. The locks and dams authorized by the act of July 3, 1930, have been completed, and under present condition of flow at Lockport, there is now a channel 300 feet wide and 9 feet deep between Lockport and Utica with the exception of the Marseilles Canal, which is 200 feet wide. The two locks authorized by the act of August 30, 1935, have been completed, the old dams at Kampsville and La Grange have been removed and the 300-foot channel between Grafton and Utica has been completed.

A navigable channel now exists connecting the Mississippi River at Grafton with Lake Michigan via the Illinois and Des Planes Rivers, the Chicago Sanitary Canal, and the Chicago River, with a secondary outlet to Lake Michigan via the Calumet-Sag Channel, the Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers. The controlling depth of the river as it prevails, with a diversion of 1,500 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan through the Chicago Sanitary Canal, is 9 feet during extreme low water. The limiting horizontal bridge clearance in the section Grafton to Utica is 114 feet. The limiting horizontal clearance which occurs at bridges between Utica and Lockport is 113 feet. The limiting horizontal clearance which occurs at bridges between Lockport and Lake Michigan via the Chicago Sanitary Canal and the Chicago River is 72 feet. The limiting horizontal clearance which occurs at bridges between Lockport and turning basin No. 5 in the Calumet River via the Chicago Sanitary Canal, the Calumet-Sag Channel, and the Calumet River is 50 feet. Seven locks and six dams have been completed. (See table under paragraph "Existing project" for description and percentage of completion.)

The following work remains to be done:

Installation of Tainter gate cofferdams at all dams, Starved Rock to Lockport; completion of construction of additional mooring and protection facilities in all pools; completion of flowage and remedial works; and dredging to provide a channel 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide, with adequate widening at critical points and bends to Lockport Lock; enlargement of the Calumet-Sag Channel to a width of 160 feet and a usable depth of 9 feet; dredging of a channel 160 feet wide with a usable depth of 9 feet in the Grand Calumet River from its junction with the Little Calumet River to deep (lake) draft navigation at One Hundred Forty-first Street,