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  • 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-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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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).

  • 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-Shinnecock Inlet, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Federal Navigation Channel/Infrastructure Maintenance and Stewardship.

  • FACT SHEET-Brown's Creek, NY

    DESCRIPTION: The project provides for a channel 6 feet deep to 250 feet inshore of the jetties; 4 feet deep to the head of navigation, 100 feet wide and approximately 1 mile long.  Two stone jetties are at the entrance, the east jetty is 448 feet long and the west jetty is 700 feet long.AUTHORIZATION: The federal navigation project for Browns Creek

  • FACT SHEET-Jamaica Bay, NY Federal Navigation Channel

    Maintenance of Infrastructure and Stewardship