Dredging Operations in Jamaica Bay, New York, Prior to 1971

USACE Permitted Dredging activities in Jamaica Bay,

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All figures in Millions of cubic yards

Kennedy Airport...1938...60

Kennedy Airport easterly runway extension...1958...4.3

Kennedy Airport westerly runway extension...1962...11.5

Sanitary fill along north shore...1938 - 198?...10

Seaplane runways at Floyd Bennett Field..1942...2.5

New York State Mental Hospital.....1969..3.6

Beach Channel High School...19??...2

Documented cubic yards prior to 1971....93.9

Estimated TOTAL cubic yards prior to 1971.........125

Dredging permits:

1900 - 1905......6

1906 - 1910......3

1911 - 1915......17

1916 - 1920......6

1921 - 1925.....34

1926 - 1930....23

1931 - 1935....14

1941 - 1945....20

1946 - 1950....12

1951 - 1955....14

1956 - 1960....21

1961 - 1965....19

1966 - 1969....13

This information taken from:

Jamaica Bay and Kennedy Airport: a multidisciplinary environmental study Volume 2.

Jamaica Bay Environmental Study Group, National Academy of Sciences, 1971

ISBN: 0309018714

This information Posted by:

Kevin Olsen

Instrumentation Specialist

Chemistry and Biochemistry Support Staff

Room 359 Richardson Hall

Montclair State University

Normal Ave

Montclair, NJ, 07043

973-655-4076