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  • FACT SHEET - Spring Creek (North) Park Ecosystem Restoration Project, Queens, NY

    DESCRIPTION: The Spring Creek North project area is a 47-acre portion of Spring Creek Park located adjacent to the banks of Spring Creek and Ralph’s Creek, located in northern Jamaica Bay straddling the NYC Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The proposed ecosystem restoration project seeks to improve the habitat in Spring Creek Park and Jamaica Bay.

  • FACT SHEET – Staten Island Warehouse

    DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, is addressing the Staten Island Warehouse (SIW) Site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). This program authorizes USACE to identify, investigate, and clean up sites used in the nation’s early atomic weapons and energy programs. The 1.25-acre SIW

  • FACT SHEET-Middlesex Sampling Plant, NJ

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York District is conducting environmental investigations and survey activities related to the former Middlesex Sampling Plant (MSP) site located at 239 Mountain Avenue in the Borough of Middlesex, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The MSP was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) to sample, store, test, and transfer ores containing uranium, thorium, and beryllium. The ongoing site work is being performed under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), a program that is cleaning up sites with contamination resulting from the nation’s early atomic energy program.

  • FACT SHEET - Middlesex Municipal Landfill, NJ

    DESCRIPTION:  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, is addressing contamination at the Middlesex Municipal Landfill (MML) Site as part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). This program authorizes USACE to identify, investigate, and clean up sites that were part of the nation’s early atomic energy and

  • FACT SHEET- Eastchester Creek, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Maintenance dredging of creek and upland placement of dredged material.

  • FACT SHEET-Bronx River, New York

    DESCRIPTION: The project has been sampled and tested for possible future upland placement of the dredged material, subject to availability of funds.

  • FACT SHEET-Jamaica Bay, NY Federal Navigation Channel

    Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship

  • FACT SHEET- Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels, NY

    DESCRIPTION: A channel 40 feet deep, of the following widths, 1,200 feet from the Narrows to Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn, thence 1,750 feet to the junction of Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels, and thence 1,200 feet through to its junction with Buttermilk Channel. In the entrance to Gowanus Creek, the width narrows uniformly to b5090 feet at 28th

  • FACT SHEET - Fire Island Inlet and Shores Westerly to Jones Inlet, New York

    DESCRIPTION: This is a multi-purpose project that provides both a navigation channel, a minimum of 250 feet wide and to a minimum of -10 feet Mean Low Water Datum, and coastal storm risk management benefits through the periodic maintenance dredging of the navigation channel with placement of all the dredged sand westward along the Gilgo Beach

  • FACT SHEET-Flushing Bay and Creek, New York

    DESCRIPTION: The navigation asset provides for a bay channel 15 feet deep; a creek channel 15 feet deep; an irregularly shaped maneuvering area 15 feet deep; and an anchorage basin 6 feet deep. This is a high use deep draft navigation channel.AUTHORIZATION: Authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1902 and subsequently modified by the Rivers and