Analytical and Topical Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers and Officers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, 1866-1900 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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2d sess 55th Cong act of Aug act of June act of Mar American Dredging Co Appropriations ASSISTANTS banks Bayou Benyaurd Board of Engineers bowlders breakwater bridge brush c. y. dredged c. y. rock removed c. y. stone canal cents per c. y. chan channel 100 CHIEF OF ENGINEERS Commerce completed construction Contracts Creek crib deep depth Description dike construction direction of Capt direction of Lt direction of Maj dredged channel east pier ENGINEERS IN CHARGE esti estimated cost Examination ordered Fort Smith Galveston Bay Herr Island hired labor improvement Island jetty Lake locks and dams logs MAPS ment miles mouth navigation north pier obstructions removed Operations ordered by act Physical characteristics pier extension pile Plans ports Projects report unfavorable revetment riprap S. T. Abert shoals shore Smith snags removed south jetty south pier stone placed struction superstructure tion Total trees west pier wide width wing dams
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218. lappuse - Congress made an appropriation "for improving the Chicago river, in Illinois, from its mouth to the stock yards on the South branch and to Belmont avenue on the North branch, as far as may be permitted by existing docks and wharves, to be dredged to admit passage by vessels drawing sixteen feet of water.
111. lappuse - The original project and its subsequent modifications provided for a harbor of refuge on the eastern side of the island, consisting of an inner harbor or basin for .small vessels and an exterior harbor for large ones. The basin was to be about 250 by 300 feet in area, and inclosed, with the exception of an opening of 80 feet in width.
63. lappuse - Report for 1896, p. 1006), of the cost of deepening the channel to a depth of 27 feet. It was for a channel 100 feet wide on the bottom, with side slopes of 1 on 3, from the main ship channel near Fort McHenry to the foot of Eutaw street, with a turning basin 400 feet by 400 feet near the upper end, at an estimated cost of $314,000, which is the existing project.
569. lappuse - Point, a distance of 6,900 feet to a point 400 feet inside the harbor line, and an anchorage basin 500 feet by 300 feet and 10 feet deep at mean low water; the upper part of the channel to be maintained by occasional dredging, the lower part by a training wall joining the land at Little Nahant, at an estimated cost of $182,000.
120. lappuse - It proposed to dredge the channel 23 feet deep at mean low water, 1,000 feet wide at the " Upper" and " Lower " Middles, and 685 feet wide at the
400. lappuse - June 3, 1896, directed that a thorough investigation of the character, limitations, and description of the property and rights of the United States...
491. lappuse - Hennepin, 111., thence via Bureau Creek Valley and over the summit to Rock River at the mouth of Green River; thence by slack water in Rock River, and a canal around the lower rapids of the river at Milan to the Mississippi River at the mouth of Rock River.
432. lappuse - War is hereby directed to cause to be made accurate examinations and estimates of cost of construction of a ship canal by the most practicable route, wholly within the United States, from the Great Lakes to the navigable waters of the Hudson river, of sufficient capacity to transport the tonnage of the lakes to the sea.
319. lappuse - Ledge, where rock would require to be removed, by regulating the tidal flow by means of dikes, with recourse to dredging where necessary as an aid to such contracting and regulating works.
478. lappuse - First. A system of longitudinal dikes to confine the current sufficiently to allow the ebb and flow of the tidal current to keep the channel clear; these dikes to be gradually brought nearer together from New Baltimore towards Troy, so as to assist the entrance of the flood current and increase its height, their height to be kept approximately at the level of the tidal high water, so as not to confine the freshets, the exact level, however, being left to...