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

  • FACT SHEET - New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening and Channel Improvements Preconstruction, Engineering and Design

    DESCRIPTION: The Port of New York and New Jersey (PONYNJ) is a conduit of global commerce and a major generator of jobs and economic activity in the region. The Port is the largest port on the East Coast of North America, the second largest in the nation, and one of the most productive high-volume port operations globally. The federal navigation channel system includes various terminals and associated facilities within PONJNY. The Port’s catchment area that lies within 260 miles of Newark Bay and includes all or part of 17 states. Getting goods into the hands of the consumers through an efficient and reliable transportation network is the cornerstone of the Port’s competitive edge with global markets.

  • FACT SHEET - Montauk Point, NY Study Area, and Historic Lighthouse

    The Montauk Point study area, including the historic lighthouse on a bluff at the eastern end of the southern fork of Long Island in the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY

  • FACT SHEET - New York / New Jersey Harbor, NY and NJ

    DESCRIPTION:  Maintenance and Stewardship of 50-foot navigation channels within the New York and New Jersey Harbor; NY and NJ.AUTHORIZATION:  The 50-foot navigation channels include the Ambrose Channel to -53 feet MLW datum; the Anchorage Channel, Arthur Kill Channel (to Howland Hook Marine Terminal),Bay Ridge Channel, Kill van Kull Channel, Newark

  • 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 - Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point (Coney Island), NY

    Shore Protection Project. Located on the south shore of Long Island in the Borough of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.

  • FACT SHEET-Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet (Long Beach) NY

    DESCRIPTION: The project area is located on the south shore of Long Island, consisting of approximately 9 miles of oceanfront from Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet. A historical low height and narrow width of the beach front increased the area’s potential for storm damage. Damaging storms occurred in 1938, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1984, 1991, 1992 and 2012. In October 2012, Super Storm Sandy caused over $250 million in damages.