These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel.
This work, including probably the two jettiesand the boom, cost L120.
In addition to a boom and two timber jetties at the entrance to the haven, Yarmouth possessed a chain for the protection of its shipping.
For this purpose, jettiesshould be built far out to the deep sea, as those at the mouths of the Mississippi in America.
These jettiestaken together will be not more than 5 miles in length and mostly in very shallow water.
Stone or concrete bunds or quays should be built on both sides of the river and tidal jetties should be provided for train ferries.
After the building of these jetties, land will be rapidly formed between jetties along both sides of the channel by natural process.
The shallow bottom above these jetties should be dredged to the required depth.
Meanwhile jetties were being built to better control the shifting channel and in 1898 the rear light tower was rebuilt.
Measures were meanwhile taken to construct four jetties at right angles to the shore protection and a protection wall in front of the one still standing.
Volusia, the site of an ancient Spanish mission, is at the head of this lake, and the discharge from the swift but narrow stream above has made sand bars, so that jetties are constructed to deepen the channel.
The bill provided that there should be two parallel stone jetties extending nearly six miles out into the gulf, one from the east point of Galveston Island, the other from the west point of Bolivar Peninsula.
The opening to the bay between the end of the island and the mainland gives the water a free sweep over the jetties when a heavy wind is blowing.
Galveston, made the following statement: "The jetties are sunk nearly to mean low tide level, but not seriously breached.
The immediate effect of early construction of thejetties was to remove the inner bar, which formerly had thirteen feet of water over it, and which now has over twenty-one feet of water.
Down the channel to the jetties two other ocean steamships lie grounded.
In the last storm, the southwesterly one of the jetties pocketed the water and carried it up over the southeastern end of the island.
In twenty years from the commencement of the Jetties there was a gain of one hundred per cent.
The effect has spread to remote districts; and by this reduction in rates and prices there is no doubt that the Jetties have made living cheaper on the Atlantic seaboard as well as in the Mississippi Valley.
The commission, returning too from Europe, where it had made as careful investigations as those of Eads, reported, by a majority of six to one, in favor of trying jetties in the South Pass.
In 1879, a little over four years from the time the Jetties were begun, the United States inspecting officer there reported the maximum depth of thirty feet and the required width and depths throughout the channel.
Yet despite the confidence of their builder, despite his cheerfulness, the Jetties were not getting along well.
But the Jetties were situated far off in a remote marshland where few people saw them; consequently nearly everybody was either deceived or was disingenuous.
To be sure, they were steadily deepening the channel, and thereby proving to all ingenuous persons who were undeceived that jetties were what had long been needed, and that they should be helped along and finished.
Tiring of the sea in time, he had found work on the jetties and rented this room for sixpence a week.
The entrance from the sea is obstructed by a bar through which the Government excavated at great expense a channel, flanked by stone jetties five miles long.
The Romans, not content with the natural advantages offered as harbours, frequently cut them out of the soft rock itself, or built out jetties or quais, as have all dock engineers since when occasion demanded.
One of the most interesting scenes at Harwich is a group of old wrecks that has been utilized for a series of jetties in connection with a shipbuilder's yard.
Where docks are given sloping sides, openwork timberjetties are generally carried across the slope, at the ends of which vessels can lie in deep water (fig.
The new jetties at Dunkirk were founded in the sandy beach, by the aid of compressed air, at a depth of 22(3/4) ft.
Thus the available depth of the approach channels to Venice through the Malamocco and Lido outlets from the Venetian lagoon have been deepened several feet over their bars by jetties of rubble stone surmounted by a small superstructure (fig.
The channel between the jetties was originally maintained by tidal scour from low-lying areas close to the coast, and subsequently by the current from sluicing basins; but it is now often considerably deepened by sand-pump dredging.
Jetties prolonging the Sulina branch of the Danube into the Black Sea, and the south pass of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico (fig.
The channel through the jettiesat the mouth of the Pass is twenty-one feet deep.
The entrance from the sea through the jetties is one thousand feet wide, and through the works at the head of the Pass eight hundred feet.
These jetties are projecting dikes of brush, fascines, and stone.
Little model jetties were arranged to represent exactly the real ones, while against them were moored model vessels, so that the effect upon them could be observed as the model of the large vessel was towed past.
With the growth of the Atlantic liner the old jetties had become too short, and questions arose as to the elongation of them.
The port of New York consists very largely of jetties projecting out from the banks of the river.
Quick as we got out of the oyster place dad wanted to take a steamboat ride down the river to the Eades Jetties at the mouth of the river, and we went on board, and had a nice ride down to the mouth.
In 1768 John Golborne advised the narrowing of the river and the increasing of the scour by the construction of rubble jetties and the dredging of sandbanks and shoals.
The wintry storms were already cutting their frail line of communications by sea, and smashing up their miserable jetties on the beaches.
By this arrangement jetties can be carried out across the slope as required, enabling vessels to lie against their ends; and coal-tips are very conveniently extended out across the slope at suitable intervals (fig.
The vessels used to be moored at the ghaut at the bottom of Hare Street, as there were no jetties in those days.
The idea, which originated with a German, was to build a port with docks and jetties and all other conveniences at Canning Town which was then already connected with Calcutta by a railway.
The whole French court ran to the harbor, while the quays and jettieswere soon covered by crowds of people.
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