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Excerpt from Methods of Improving Ocean Bars
The work at Brunswick was undertaken by a private citizen that place, at his own risk and expense, under contract with Government for payments only after the results were secured, in or to save the commerce from annihilation.' The officer i states that to build there a pair of high tide jetties which expected to create and maintain an ample channel would be bibitory. Jetties to low tide could be expected merely to pres the channel location and reduce the cost of dredging. The mated cost of these is The interest on this at three per cent. Would be per annum, or prob much more than enough to create annually, by dredging, channel depths and widths required by the act.
In a subsequent part of his report the officer in charge that the requisite channel could have been created by removi cubic yards at a cost of only It may well asked why-this discovery was not made and applied at an earl date and the already paid the contractor for his chann secured after seven years of labor, have been saved.
While this conclusion leaves the whole matter of cos cal and guarantees nothing, it also assumes that low tide fix the channel and red would be to admit and so increase the amount the channel, as has hap the south, where this plan was tried by his predecessor and si failed. But if the cost of maintenance were even as low as $6 this at three per cent. Would represent and the reaction breakwater could be built on this bar for less tha this sum, which would create and maintain the channe author of the report dismisses this method with the re its theory is fatally defective, and further that the breakwat at Aransas Pass built on this plan is not located accordingthe theory, although admitting that beneficial results have fol lowed its construction. In the large space which he devotes to its discussion, he unwittingly shows that the theory and its application are entirely misunderstood by himself and others who have attempted to apply it at other places, and that great waste to the Government has resulted from a misconception of local physical conditions.
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