Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities, Volume 2; Volume 965U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - Civil engineering |
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1st sess 2d sess acre-feet Act H anchorage Annual Report Appropriated Arkansas River Bayou Beach bridge Canal Chief of Engineers City Coast and Geodetic Condition at end construction contract contributed funds cooperation Cost and financial County Creek cubic yards dike District dredging earthfill east end of fiscal Estimated cost Existing project feet deep feet long financial statement Fiscal Flood Control Act Geodetic Survey Chart Harbor Act hired labor Inlet Island jetty July June 30 Kans Lake lands and damages latest published map levee Location lock and dam mean low water Mississippi River Missouri River mouth navigation non-Federal Okla Operations and results percent complete Port previous projects project was authorized railroad Regular funds relocations Reservoir results during fiscal River and Harbor River Basin spillway square miles Terminal facilities tion Total to June tributaries turning basin U.S. Army width yards of material
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Page 305 - ... establish a competent and properly constituted public body empowered to regulate the use, growth and free development of the harbor facilities with the understanding that said facilities will be open to all on equal terms.
Page 310 - Engineers, a suitable and adequate public wharf for the accommodation of transient vessels; (3) establish a competent and properly constituted public body empowered to regulate the use, growth, and free development of...
Page 144 - The existing project provides for an entrance jetty and a channel 12 feet deep and 250 feet wide, from that depth in the ocean through the inlet to the Loop Causeway Bridge over Long Creek. The length of section included in the project is about 2.1 miles.
Page 276 - June 22, 1936, authorized the construction of detention reservoirs and related flood-control works for protection of Binghamton, Hornell, Corning, and other towns in New York and Pennsylvania, in accordance with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers on recommendation of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.
Page 26 - ... of time specified by the Chief of Engineers. "(d) Shores other than public will be eligible for Federal assistance if there is benefit such as that arising from public use or from the protection of nearby public property or if the benefits to those shores are incidental to the project, and the Federal contribution to the project shall be adjusted in accordance with the degree of such benefits.
Page 296 - Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law.
Page 157 - CHANNELS Location. — These channels extend from deep water northwest of Sandy Hook, through lower New York Bay and Raritan Bay, to Perth Amboy, and thence through Arthur Kill, lower Newark Bay, and Kill Van Kull to deep water in upper New York Bay. This route is located approximately along the boundary line between the States of New York and New Jersey. (See US Coast and Geodetic Survey Charts Nos. 285, 286, and 369.) Previous projects. — (a) Raritan Bay. — Adopted by River and Harbor Acts...
Page 367 - Eurasian water milfoil, and other obnoxious aquatic plant growths, from the navigable waters, tributary streams, connecting channels, and other allied waters of the United States, in the combined interest of navigation, flood control, drainage, agriculture, fish and wildlife conservation, public health, and related purposes...
Page 310 - Provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way required for construction and subsequent maintenance of the project and for aids to navigation upon the request of the Chief of Engineers, including suitable areas determined by the Chief of Engineers to be required in the general public interest for initial and subsequent disposal of spoil, and necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments therefor or the costs of such retaining works.
Page 147 - Existing project. — This provides for a channel 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep at mean low water from the federally improved channel in Great South Bay, opposite Patchogue to the south end of Shinnecock Canal. The length of the section included in the project is 34 miles.