PART III: PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS 



Alaska District 



Cordova Harbor, Alaska 



16. Cordova is located in southern Alaska on Orca Inlet at the south- 

 eastern approach of Prince William Sound, 145 air miles east-southeast from 

 Anchorage. The original project was adopted in 1935 and completed in 1938, 

 including an 8.26-acre boat basin dredged to -10 ft mean lower low water 

 (mllw), a 1,100-ft north breakwater, and a 1,400-ft south breakwater, both of 

 rubble-mound over brush mat construction. The harbor was originally designed 

 for 500 boats, but increasing boat sizes reduced the capacity to 220 boats by 

 1964. 



17. The 1964 earthquake uplifted the area 6.4 ft and reduced the depth 

 of the harbor to -5.5 ft mllw. The harbor was restored — including repair and 

 strengthening of both breakwaters, construction of an access road along the 

 crest of the north breakwater, and dredging the original basin plus an addi- 

 tional 10.4 acres to -14 ft mllw--to provide a 305-boat capacity. Restoration 

 was completed in 1965, and a l83-ft entrance breakwater was added in 1966. 



18. In 1981 the harbor was expanded by 19.55 acres by removing the 

 1,400-ft south breakwater, extending an existing silt barrier breakwater by 

 650 ft, and constructing a 1,902-ft rubble-mound breakwater along the west and 

 north sides of the extended basin. The basin extension was dredged by local 

 interests. The project was completed in 1983 and appears to be in good con- 

 dition at this time. A chronology of events related to the development and 

 repair of the harbor structures is given in Table 1 . 



Craig Harbor, Alaska 



19. Craig is located in southeastern Alaska on the west side of Prince 

 of Wales Island, 60 air miles west of Ketchikan and 750 miles southeast of 

 Anchorage. The project includes a small-boat basin protected by two 

 breakwaters . 



20. The original project was adopted in 1945 and provided for dredging 

 a basin in South Cove to -11 ft mllw and a 100-ft wide entrance channel to 



-11 ft mllw. The floating dock system was expanded toward the harbor entrance 

 in 1975 to provide moorage for the growing fishing fleet. The expanded area 

 was subjected to winter storms. After one ship sank and several others were 



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