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  • FACT SHEET - Byram River Basin, Greenwich, CT & Portchester, NY

    DESCRIPTION: Flooding on the Byram River primarily affects the Town of Greenwich, just south of the constructed project of levees at Pemberwick.  The study area has been subjected to repeated, severe flooding from high precipitation events, with the largest events being the storms of October 1955, June 1972, September 1975, and April 2007. A large

  • FACT SHEET - Rahway River Basin (Tidal), NJ

    DESCRIPTION:   The Rahway River Basin is 81.9 square miles and lies within the metropolitan area of Greater New York.  Flooding within the Rahway River Basin is caused principally by the rapid development of the area, which has resulted in a large increase of storm water runoff.  Floods have caused damage to houses, businesses, municipal facilities

  • FACT SHEET-Saugerties Harbor, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Maintenance Dredging of Saugerties Harbor Federal Project Channel in Esopus Creek NY from the entrance of Hudson River upstream to U.S. Coast Guard Station.

  • FACT SHEET-Rondout Harbor, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Repairs to the deteriorated portions of the cribbing pilling system along the entire length of the branch dike and at the eastern end of the south dike.

  • FACT SHEET-Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont

    DESCRIPTION: The installation and maintenance of fender booms at Putts Rock, Putts Leap, Narrows near Dresden, Pulpit Point, and Cedar Mountain.  Length – about 13.5 miles. The existing project is about 77% complete, with a channel 12 feet deep at LLL and least width of 150 feet having been excavated throughout the entire length of the improvement,

  • FACT SHEET-Hudson River, NYC to Waterford, NY Maintenance Dredging

  • FACT SHEET-Gordons Landing, VT

    DESCRIPTION:  A 654-foot-long rock breakwater, disconnected from the shoreline and extending northwest out to the minus 16-foot contour of Lake Champlain. The 130-year-old breakwater protects the eastern terminus of the Cumberland Head-Grand Isle Ferry Route from wind and wave action and ice floes.AUTHORIZATION:  Adapted in the Rivers and Harbors

  • FACT SHEET-Hudson River, New York Operations & Routine Maintenance of Troy Lock & Dam

    DESCRIPTION: Routine operation and maintenance of the Troy Lock and Dam project.

  • FACT SHEET - Hudson River Habitat Restoration, NY

    DESCRIPTION: The study area included 125 miles of the Hudson River Federal channel from the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge to the federal lock and dam at Troy, NY.  The Feasibility Study evaluated aquatic ecosystem restoration measures, including evaluation of eroding shorelines, degraded fish and wildlife habitat, impediments to fish passage, and flood

  • FACT SHEET-Sylvania-Corning, NY

    Coordination with U.S. EPA and NYS DEC is ongoing.