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  • FACT SHEET - Passaic River - Preservation of Natural Storage Areas

    DESCRIPTION: Flooding has long been a problem in the Passaic River Basin. Since colonial times, floods have claimed lives and damaged property. The most severe flood, the "flood of record," occurred in 1903, and more recent floods in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, two in 1975, 1984, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2007 and 2010 were sufficiently devastating to warrant

  • FACT SHEET-Passaic River Mainstem and Tributaries, NJ

    DESCRIPTION: Flooding has long been a problem in the Passaic River Basin. Since colonial times, floods have claimed lives and damaged property. The growth of residential and industrial development in recent years has multiplied the threat of serious damages and loss of life from flooding. More than 2.5 million people live in the basin (2000 census), and about 20,000 homes and places of business lie in the Passaic River floodplain. Since 1900, at least 26 lives have been lost in floods and the total loses are over $5.5 billion dollars. In addition to the flood damages that occur in over thirty-five municipalities in the basin, environmental damage from flooding has also occurred. Significant interruption to businesses and transportation has also resulted in hardship in the basin and region after each flood event.

  • FACT SHEET - Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet – Sections I & II – Sea Bright to Manasquan, NJ

    DESCRIPTION: The project consists of 21 miles of shoreline from the Borough of Sea Bright to the Manasquan Inlet in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The project provides beach erosion control, protection of the shoreline of the the highly populated communities and infrastructure located along the Atlantic coast of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Storm damage reduction is provided by a 100 foot wide beach berm at a total elevation of +12 ft mean low water (MLW), +9.3 ft North Atlantic Vertical Datum (NAVD). The project includes periodic nourishment on a 6-year cycle for a period of 50 years from the start of initial construction. The non-Federal sponsor for the project is the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), who is responsible for acquiring all lands, easements, and rights-of-way and providing 35% of the total costs of the project. The project area is divided into two sections: Section I - which extends for 12 miles from Sea Bright to Loch Arbour (formally Ocean Township), and Section II - which includes the 9 miles from Asbury Park to the Manasquan Inlet.

  • FACT SHEET-Moriches Inlet, New York - Maintenance and Stewardship

    DESCRIPTION: Maintenance dredging of the inlet.

  • Fact Sheet-New York Harbor, NY-Maintenance and Stewardship

    DESCRIPTION:  Maintenance and stewardship of the 31 miles of navigation channels within the Upper and Lower New York Harbor to include engineering and design; ocean placement testing; and maintenance dredging of various channels that comprise of New York Harbor.  Manage and monitor ocean placement of dredged material at Atlantic Ocean’s Historic

  • FACT SHEET-Great South Bay, New York - Maintenance of Infrastructure & Stewardship

    DESCRIPTION: Original project provides for a navigation channel 10 feet deep, 200 feet wide from Fire Island Inlet to the Central Basin in Great South Bay, NY.

  • FACT SHEET- Cheesequake Creek, NJ

    DESCRIPTION:  Project provides a 5-foot deep channel, 100-foot-wide channel from Raritan Bay into Cheesequake Creek in Middlesex County, New Jersey.  The navigation channel is approximately 1,600 feet long.  The navigation channel in Raritan Bay is supported and protected by two parallel stone jetties on each side of the channel 200 feet

  • FACT SHEET - Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION:  Newark Bay is a high-use, deep draft, navigation asset consisting of the following federal navigation channels. New York and New Jersey Harbor 50-foot Channels Newark Bay Main Channel: extending north from the junction with the Kill Van Kull Channel, 50 ft deep and 1,650 feet wide and 2.4 miles long. Elizabeth Channel: a branch

  • FACT SHEET-Great Kills Harbor, Staten Island, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Great Kills Harbor, Borough of Staten Island, New York City - Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET-Shinnecock Inlet, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation Channel/Infrastructure Maintenance and Stewardship.