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

    DESCRIPTION: The study area encompasses the Rahway River Basin located in northeastern New Jersey. The Rahway River Basin is 81.9 square miles and lies within the metropolitan area of Greater New York. The most damaging floods of record within the Rahway River Basin resulted from the storms Tropical Storm Floyd in September 1999, April 2007 Nor’easter, Hurricane Irene in August 2011 and Hurricane Ida in September 2021. During the April 2007 storm, 70 to 100 homes suffered major damage to first floor and foundations. Union County and the Township of Cranford were declared federal disaster areas as a result of the April 2007 storm. As a result of Hurricane Irene, residents and business owners along Rahway River have suffered extensive financial losses and personal hardship than in most severe prior storms. Flooding from Hurricane Ida have caused damage to houses, businesses, municipal facilities, and public infrastructure.

  • FACT SHEET - Shewsbury River, New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION: This navigation asset is located in Monmouth County, NJ and consists mainly of a large tidal basin that drains into the southeastern end of Sandy Hook Bay. This asset provides for the following:  An Entrance Channel 12 feet deep, 300 feet wide, following the westerly shore from deep water in Sandy Hook Bay to a point 600 feet south of

  • FACT SHEET-Raritan River to Arthur Kill Cut–Off Channel, New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET-Port Chester Harbor, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation ChannelMaintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET - New York and New Jersey Channels (NY & NJ)

    DESCRIPTION: This navigation asset extends from deep water northwest of Sandy Hook, through Lower New York Bay to Raritan Bay, to Perth Amboy, thence through Arthur Kill, Lower Newark Bay, and Kill Van Kull in the Upper New York Bay, along the approximately boundary line between the States of New York and New Jersey. This asset contains 31 miles of

  • FACT SHEET-Jones Inlet, New York - Federal Navigation Channel

    DESCRIPTION: Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship. The federal navigation project for Jones Inlet was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act.

  • FACT SHEET-East River South Brother Island Channel, New York

    DESCRIPTION: This navigation asset is within a tidal strait about 16 miles long, 600 to 4,000 feet wide, connecting the Hudson River and the Battery, New York City, with Long Island Sound at Throgs Neck, NY; and provides for a main channel, 40 feet deep, 1,000 feet wide, from Upper New York Bay to the former Brooklyn Navy Yard, and thence 35 feet

  • FACT SHEET-Sandy Hook Bay at Leonardo Federal Channel New Jersey

    DESCRIPTION: Sandy Hook Bay at Leonardo Federal Channel New Jersey Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship

  • FACT SHEET-Raritan River, New Jersey Federal Navigation Channel

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation Channel Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET - New York and New Jersey Harbor (NY & NJ) – Arthur Kill Channel and Kill Van Kull Channel

    The project provides for deepening the 35-foot Arthur Kill Channel to 41 MLW from its confluence with the Kill Van Kull Channel to the New York Container Terminal, Staten Island, New York, and to 40 feet MLW from the New York Container Terminal (NYCT), Staten Island to the Conoco Phillips 66 (Tosco) Oil Terminal in New Jersey.