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  • FACT SHEET-Glen Cove Creek, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Project provides for a channel, 8 feet deep, 100 feet wide from deep water in Hempstead Harbor to the head of navigation at the City of Glen Cove, Long Island, New York.

  • FACT SHEET-Hudson River Channel, NY (40 Ft.)

    DESCRIPTION: A channel 45 feet deep (MLW), suitably widened at bends, from deep water in Upper New York Bay to West 40th Street, Manhattan, and thence 48 feet deep, 2,000 feet wide to 59th Street. This Channel is about 6 miles long.A channel 40 feet deep for the full width of the river, extending from deep water in Upper New York Bay of Ellis

  • FACT SHEET-Long Island Intracoastal Waterway, New York - Federal Navigation Channel

    DESCRIPTION: This asset provides for a navigation channel 6 feet deep, 100 feet wide from the Federally improved channel in Great South Bay, opposite Patchogue, to the south end of Shinnecock Canal. The lengthy 33.6 mile project traverses the inland waters through Great South Bay, Bellport Bay, Narrow Bay, Moriches Bay, Quantuck Bay and Shinnecock

  • FACT SHEET-Mattituck Harbor, NY

    DESCRIPTION: This navigation asset is a tidal inlet located on the north shore of Long Island Sound, about 85 miles by water east of the Battery, New York City; and provides for a channel, 7 feet deep, 100 feet wide at the entrance and 80 feet wide thereafter, from the Long Island Sound, extending southward about 2 ¼ miles, to Mattituck, Town of

  • FACT SHEET-Sag Harbor Breakwater, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Repair of Breakwater at Sag Harbor, New York.

  • FACT SHEET-Shark River, New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET-Shoal Harbor & Compton Creek, Belford, New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION: Shoal Harbor & Compton Creek, Belford, New Jersey.

  • FACT SHEET - Westchester Creek, New York

    DESCRIPTION: This asset provides for a Channel, 12 feet deep, 100 ft. wide, for a distance of 2,000 ft. at the entrance, thence 80 ft. wide for a distance of 3,000 ft. and thence 60 ft. wide for a distance of 8,800 ft. to the head of navigation at East Tremont Avenue (Fort Schuyler Road), with widening at bends.  Length – about 2.6 miles.Three

  • FACT SHEET - Passaic River Tidal Protection Area, NJ

    DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, completed a study in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), recommending a coastal storm risk management project in and surrounding tidal portions of Newark, NJ, due to the Passaic River, New Jersey. A Feasibility Cost Sharing Agreement (FCSA) for the study was executed between the USACE and NJDEP on October 28, 2014.

  • FACT SHEET - Joseph G. Minish Passaic River NJ Waterfront Park and Historic Area

    DESCRIPTION: The Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area project is located along the west bank of the Passaic River between Bridge and Brill Streets in the City of Newark, New Jersey. This reach of the Passaic River is eroded, deteriorated and environmentally degraded due to past commercial and industrial use and flooding. The project design was comprised of three phases: Phase I is 6,000 feet of new bulkhead, 3,200 feet of restored riverbank and creation of wetlands, Phase II is the 9,200-foot waterfront walkway and Phase III is the park facilities, plazas, and landscaping. The city of Newark is pursuing a walkway, park and redevelopment area independently; therefore, Phase I is the only phase USACE will construct. The Non-Federal sponsors for Phase I is the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).