﻿HYDROLOGY 
  OP 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  777 
  

  

  Without 
  wishing 
  to 
  present 
  the 
  foregoing 
  as 
  in 
  any 
  degree 
  

   a 
  final 
  conclusion, 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  broad 
  view 
  to 
  take 
  of 
  the 
  question. 
  

  

  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Engineers 
  on 
  Deep 
  Waterways, 
  Under 
  

   the 
  provisions 
  of 
  the 
  Sundry 
  Civil 
  Act, 
  passed 
  June 
  4 
  ; 
  1897, 
  the 
  

   President 
  appointed 
  Major 
  Chas. 
  W. 
  Raymond 
  of 
  the 
  Corps 
  of 
  

   Army 
  Engineers, 
  Alfred 
  Noble 
  and 
  Ceorge 
  Y. 
  Wisner 
  to 
  make 
  

   surveys 
  and 
  examinations 
  of 
  deep 
  waterways 
  between 
  the 
  Great 
  

   Lakes 
  and 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  tidewaters, 
  as 
  recommended 
  by 
  the 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  Deep 
  Waterways 
  Commission. 
  The 
  sundry 
  civil 
  

   act 
  of 
  July 
  1, 
  1898, 
  provided 
  that 
  this 
  board 
  should 
  submit 
  in 
  

   their 
  report 
  the 
  probable 
  and 
  relative 
  cost 
  of 
  canals 
  21 
  and 
  30 
  

   feet 
  in 
  depth, 
  with 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  relative 
  advantages. 
  

  

  This 
  board 
  examined 
  the 
  project 
  for 
  a 
  ship 
  canal 
  in 
  all 
  its 
  

   phases, 
  making 
  the 
  most 
  elaborate 
  report 
  thus 
  far 
  made 
  on 
  an 
  

   engineering 
  project 
  anywhere; 
  $485,000 
  was 
  spent 
  and 
  the 
  

   report 
  includes 
  over 
  1000 
  pages, 
  illustrated 
  by 
  maps 
  and 
  dia- 
  

   grams, 
  showing 
  every 
  possible 
  phase 
  of 
  the 
  subject. 
  Its 
  length 
  

   precludes 
  anything 
  like 
  a 
  complete 
  review 
  of 
  it 
  here, 
  and 
  the 
  

   writer 
  will 
  confine 
  himself 
  to 
  such 
  references 
  as 
  are 
  necessary 
  

   to 
  understand 
  its 
  relation 
  to 
  water 
  supply 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  

   York. 
  

  

  Attention 
  may 
  be- 
  again 
  called 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  Board 
  

   of 
  Engineers 
  was 
  limited 
  in 
  its 
  investigations 
  to 
  the 
  recom- 
  

   mendations 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Deep 
  Waterways 
  Commission. 
  These 
  

   recommendations 
  included 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  1) 
  That 
  complete 
  surveys 
  and 
  examinations 
  be 
  made 
  and 
  all 
  

   needful 
  data 
  to 
  mature 
  projects 
  be 
  procured 
  for 
  — 
  

  

  a) 
  Controlling 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  and 
  projecting 
  the 
  

   Niagara 
  ship-canal. 
  

  

  b) 
  Developing 
  the 
  Oswego-Oneida-Mohawk 
  route. 
  

  

  c) 
  Developing 
  the 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  Champlain 
  route. 
  

  

  d) 
  Improving 
  the 
  tidal 
  Hudson 
  river. 
  

  

  e) 
  Improving 
  intermediate 
  channels 
  of 
  the 
  lakes. 
  

  

  2) 
  That 
  the 
  collecting 
  and 
  reducing 
  of 
  existing 
  information, 
  

   supplemented 
  by 
  reconnaissance 
  and 
  special 
  investigations, 
  be 
  

   continued 
  until 
  the 
  general 
  questions 
  have 
  been 
  fully 
  covered. 
  

  

  3) 
  That 
  a 
  systematic 
  measurement 
  of 
  the 
  outflow 
  of 
  the 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  lakes 
  and 
  a 
  final 
  determination 
  of 
  their 
  levels 
  shall 
  be 
  

   undertaken. 
  

  

  