 The present project was adopted in 1874, and provides for obtaining by diking and dredging, and where necessary by drilling and blasting rock, a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water, from the mouth to New Brunswick, at a cost of $2,093,662.05.  Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army - Page 996by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1891Full view - About this book
 | United States. War Department - 1899 - 1300 pages
...water. The project for improvement, adopted by the river and harbor act of June 18, 1878, provided for a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the mouth to the Delaware and Karitan Canal terminus at New Brunswick, to be obtained by dredging, diking, and rock... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1900 - 1182 pages
...improvement, adopted by the river und harbor act of June 18, 1S78, provided for a channel 200 foot wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the mouth to the Delaware and Raritan Canal terminus at New Brunswick, to lie. obtained by dredging, diking, and... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1907 - 1062 pages
...cent of the cost of the work contemplated under the present project has been completed, resulting in a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low wa_ter in the bay, except at bars "A" and " B ; " and in the completion of a channel 100 feet wide... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1911 - 1184 pages
...About 41 per cent of the work contemplated under the present project has been completed, resulting in a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water in the bay, except at bars "A" and " B," and in dredging a channel 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep at... | |
 | Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners of Massachusetts - Harbors - 1914 - 236 pages
...in the report of a board of engineers dated April 10, 1884, and as modified in 1888, was to dredge a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the sea (at White Rocks), a distance of 3,300 feet to a deep basin opposite Little Nahant, and from... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1915 - 1796 pages
...river and harbor act of June 18, 1878, provides for a channel by diking and dredging and rock removal, 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the mouth to the canal entrance at New Brunswick. a distance of 12 miles. The original estimate of cost was $2,093,602.05.... | |
 | Finance - 1915 - 372 pages
...1875 (for PamlicO River) and of 1879, 1889, and 1907 (for Tar River), and 1912, modified to secure a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water to Wasnmgton; thence a channel 75 feet wide and 6 feet deep to Greenville; thence a channel 60 feet... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - Harbors - 1915 - 300 pages
...Center Street Bridge to project depth in Newark Bay, about 5 miles in distance. It provided for making a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water by diking and dredging. The mean range of tides in this section of the river is 5 feet. The original... | |
 | Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners of Massachusetts - 1914 - 236 pages
...in the report of a board of engineers dated April 10, 1884, and as modified in 1888, was to dredge a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the sea (at White Rocks), a distance of 3,300 feet to a deep basin opposite Little Nahant, and from... | |
 | United States - 1939 - 790 pages
...low water. 13. The existing project, as modified by the several acts, now provides for a channel 80 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from the mouth to Petersburg; a turning basin at Petersburg; the excavation of a diversion channel about 2 miles long... | |
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