The major treatment plant in Suffolk County, Bergen Point in Babylon, takes only 500,000 gallons a day, he said.
At Bergen Point, he said, dredging has temporarily narrowed the available channel from its usual 650 feet width to a 375-foot-wide bottleneck.
He then established a stage coach line from Greenville (modern day Jersey City) to the ferry at Bergen Point.
The Robbins Reef Light marks the eastern end of the Kill, Bergen Point its western end.
From there the father, two brothers, and wives and children, went to live at Goodstay, a house purchased for them in Bergen Point, New Jersey.
Communities within Bayonne include Bergen Point and Constable Hook.
Further to the north, the hurricane destroyed a windmill at Bergen Point, New Jersey.
His funeral was held in Trinity Episcopal Church in Bergen Point.
Bergen Point, the site of the 50-foot dredging, has some of the hardest rock in the harbor and requires dynamite blasting that can rattle windows.
The four county employees at Bergen Point were reassignedto other jobs.
