Cost and financial summary Cost of new work to June 30, 1945____ Cost of maintenance to June 30, 1945. Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945--- Net total expenditures.. Unexpended balance June 30, 1945– Total amount appropriated to June 30, 1945_. $1, 499, 774. 17 1, 138, 698. 87 2, 638, 473. 04 2,638, 473. 04 1, 329. 21 2, 639, 802.25 $2,045. 85 Balance unexpended July 1, 1944. Amount allotted from War Department Civil Appropriation Amount to be accounted for.. Gross amount expended__ Balance unexpended June 30, 1945‒‒‒‒ Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending 1 Exclusive of available funds. ILLINOIS WATERWAY, ILL. 2,000.00 4, 045. 85 2, 716. 64 1, 329. 21 43, 000. 00 Location. The Illinois River (entirely within the State of Illinois), formed by the confluence of the Kankakee and the Des Plaines Rivers, flows in a southwesterly direction and enters the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill., about 38 miles above St. Louis. The Illinois Waterway comprises the Illinois River from its mouth to the confluence of the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers, a distance of 273 miles; the Des Plaines River to Lockport, a distance of 18.1 miles, and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the south branch of the Chicago River to Lake Street, Chicago, a distance of 34.5 miles. Also from point 12.4 miles above Lockport, Ill., the Waterway comprises the Calumet-Sag Channel and the Little Calumet and Calumet Rivers, to turning basin No. 5, near the entrance to Lake Calumet, a distance of 23.8 miles; and the Grand Calumet River from the junction to One Hundred Fortyfirst Street, deep (lake) draft navigation, a distance of 7.4 miles. Previous projects.-The original project was adopted by the River and Harbor Acts of August 30, 1852; April 10, 1869; July 11, 1870; June 14, 1880; and March 2, 1907. For further details see page 1945 of Annual Report for 1915 and page 1172 of Annual Report for 1932. Existing project. This project provides for a channel with least dimensions of 9 feet in depth and 300 feet in width from the mouth of the waterway to Lockport, Ill., a distance of 291.1 miles, and for the enlargement of the Calumet-Sag Channel to a width of 160 feet and a usable depth of 9 feet from its junction with the Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal, to Blue Island, Ill., a distance of 16 miles. Also a channel with a usable depth of 9 feet and 160 feet in width in the Grand Calumet River from the existing channel in the Little Calumet River to its junction with the Indiana Harbor Canal and thence northward through One Hundred Fortyfirst Street, East Chicago, Ind., to deep (lake) draft navigation in Indiana Harbor Canal, a distance of 7.4 miles, to be secured by dredging; the construction of locks and dams at Peoria, LaGrange, Starved Rock, Dresden Island, and Brandon Road, the construction of locks at the lower end of the Marseilles Canal, at Lockport, Ill., and at about mile 324.5, and the construction of a dam at Marseilles; a navigable channel depth of not less than 9 feet of the present width from Lockport, Ill., to Lake Street, Chicago, via the main sanitary canal and the south branch of the Chicago River, a distance of 34.5 miles. The project also provides for a channel 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide in Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers, from turning basin No. 5 to the eastern end of the Sag Channel, a distance of 7.6 miles, with the realinement of the navigation channel from One Hundred and Thirtieth Street on the Calumet River in Chicago, Ill., to One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Street on Little Calumet River in Burnham, Ill., and the abandonment and discontinuance of that portion of the natural Calumet River bypassed by the realined channel, and for dredging at the entrance and to the south end of Lake Calumet to a depth of 21 feet. The total length of the project from the mouth to Lake Street, Chicago, is 325.6 miles and from the mouth to turning basin No. 5, 327.3 miles. The estimated cost of new work, revised in 1945, is $53,610,000. The latest (1945) approved estimate of cost for the operating and care of locks and dams is $381,600 annually, and for channel maintenance $420,700 annually. The existing project was authorized by the following river and harbor acts: Acts Jan. 21, 1927 July 3, 1930 1 Work authorized Channel 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide from mouth Channel depth of 9 feet from Utica, Ill., to the Documents Rivers and Harbors Committee Doc. S. Doc. No. 126, 71st Cong., 2d sess. 1 The River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930, provided that as soon as practicable after the Illinois Waterway shall have been completed in accordance therewith the Secretary of War shall cause a study of the amount of water that will be required as an annual average flow to meet the needs of a commercially useful waterway, as defined in said Senate document (S. Doc. No. 126, 71st Cong., 2d sess.), and shall, on or before Jan. 31, 1938, report to the Congress the results of such study, with his recommendations as to the minimum amount of such flow that will be required annually to meet the needs of such waterway and that will not substantially injure the existing navigation on the Great Lakes, to the end that Congress may take such action as it may deem advisable. Acts Work authorized Documents Aug. 30, 1935 June 26, 1934 Operation and care of the locks and dams pro- Aug. 30, 19354 June 14, 1937 (Pub. Res. 42) June 20, 1938 Mar. 2, 1945 the Sag Channel and the authorized channel in Modifies requirements of "local cooperation" in Permanent Appropriations Repeal Act. H. Doc. No. 184, 73d Cong., 2d sess." H. Doc. No. 180, 73d Cong., 2d sess. Rivers and Harbors Committee Doc. Public, No. 685, 75th Cong., 3d sess. H. Doc. No. 145, 76th Cong., 1st sess. Contains latest published map of Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers. Included in part, in the Public Works Administration program, Oct. 31, 1934, and Feb. 28, 1935. The latest published map and profile of the Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers are contained in House Document No. 184, Seventythird Congress, second session, and a map of the Calumet-Sag Channel is printed in House Document No. 145, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session. Pertinent data for existing and proposed locks and dams are given in the following table: 1 Lifts and depths on miter sills are those obtainable with flat pools. 2 Variation in lift and depth on upper miter sill at Lockport is due to fluctuation of water surface in the Sanitary District Canal. Calumet-Sag channel Indiana Harbor connection via Grand Calumet River and Calumet River Branch 3 Actual cost. 46 dams completed by U. S. E. D., the 48-foot bear trap at Lockport completed by state of Illinois. 5 This does not include $460,500 for dredging in Lake Calumet. 3 $2. 135. 358. 44 597, 785. 79 |