State Engineer and Surveyor administrative subject files
Series Number
B0247
Summary
These files document the duties and functions of the State Engineer and Surveyor. Topics covered include personnel matters; supply inventories, equipment purchases; Barge Canal construction and maintenance projects; joint topographical survey of the state with the U.S. Geological Survey; state and local boundary line surveys; land appropriations; easements; "blue line" surveys; abandonment and sale of canal lands; operation and navigation of the Barge Canal, canal alternations; and damage claims filed against the state.
Creator
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
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Records relating to diverse parts of the state's canal system
Series Number
A4431
Summary
This series consists of materials produced from work done on the state's canal system including the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, the Auburn Extension, and the Erie, Oswego, and Champlain Canals. Records include information for contracts relating to maintenance of terminals; blueprints of land to be appropriated for canal use in Cayuga County (Montezuma); daily journal of work on the Auburn Extension Survey; field books of data (Cayuga County); draft survey descriptions on assessed property values; and weekly observations of river heights.
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Preliminary computational studies for Barge Canal construction
Series Number
A4419
Summary
The series consists of computational studies, emphasizing hydrological data, for canal construction and the effect of the canal system on adjacent property. Records include: survey computations; baseline data; a revised estimate of quantities and cost for enlarging the canal through the western division; material relating to the canal at Clyde, Newark, and Lyons such as engineers' report on damage claims and newspaper briefs on Clyde River floods; and base line survey computations from Hurds Bridge to Sulphur Guard Lock.
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This series consists of discharge data, tables of water levels, survey reports, and other hydrologic data gathered by the Superintendent (later Department) of Public Works to plan for canal improvements and related flood control. During the 1920s responsibility for flood and water control was vested in that office (later the Department of Environmental Conservation assumed the responsibility). This material may also contain the raw data, and a draft copy of an annual or special report.
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