Intracoastal Waterway
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The Intracoastal Waterway is a 4,800 km (3,000 mile) long recreational and commercial waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Some lengths are natural and others are man made. One of the older portions is the Dismal Swamp Canal in the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina.
The creation of the Intracoastal Waterway was first authorized by the United States Congress in 1919. It is maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The toll-free waterway is maintained at a minimum depth of 12 ft (4 m) for most of its length; some parts have 7-ft (2.1-m) and 9-ft (2.7-m) minimum depths.
The waterway consists of two non-contiguous segments: the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Brownsville, Texas to Carrabelle, Florida, and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Key West, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts. The two segments were originally intended to be connected via the Cross-Florida Barge Canal across northern Florida, but this was never completed due to environmental concerns.
The Intracoastal Waterway has a good deal of commercial activity; barges haul petroleum, petroleum products, foodstuffs, building materials, and manufactured goods. It is also used extensively by recreational boaters.
Waterways used for and bridges over the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
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Florida
- Florida Bay
- Baker Cut (manmade)
- Buttonwood Sound
- Grouper Creek
- Tarpon Basin
- Dusenberg Creek
- Blackwater Sound
- Jewfish Creek
- Barnes Sound
- Little Card Sound
- Card Sound
- Biscayne Bay
- Biscayne Creek
- Dumfoundling Bay
- manmade canal
- Stranahan River
- New River
- New River Sound
- Middle River
- manmade canal
- Hillsboro River
- manmade canal
- Lake Boca Raton
- manmade canal?
- Lake Wyman
- Lake Rogers
- manmade canal
- Linton Boulevard
- SR 806
- Northeast 8th Street
- Southeast 15th Avenue
- SR 804
- Lake Worth
- Ocean Avenue
- SR 802
- Southern Boulevard Bridge (US 98 (SR 80/SR 700))
- Royal Palm Bridge (SR 704)
- Flagler Memorial Bridge (SR A1A)
- Riviera Beach Bridge (SR A1A)
- Lake Worth Creek
- Loxahatchee River
- Jupiter Sound
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- Hobe Sound
- Jupiter Narrows
- Peck Lake
- manmade canal
- Great Pocket
- Indian River (Florida)
- SR A1A
- Frank A. Wacha Bridge (SR 732)
- SR A1A
- North Beach Causeway (SR A1A)
- SR 656
- SR 60
- Wabasso Causeway (CR 510)
- Melbourne Causeway (US 192 (SR 500))
- Eau Gallie Bridge (SR 518)
- Pineda Causeway (SR 404)
- Humphrey Bridge (SR 520)
- Bennett Causeway (SR 528)
- Nasa Parkway West Causeway
- Titusville Causeway
- U.S. Government Railroad
- Haulover Canal (manmade)
- Former SR 3
- Mosquito Lagoon
- Indian River North
- Ponce de Leon Cut (manmade)
- Halifax River
- Halifax Creek
- Smith Creek
- manmade canal
- Fox Cut (manmade)
- manmade canal
- Matanzas River
- Tolomato River
- manmade canal
- Tolomato River
- manmade canal
- Pablo Creek
- Sisters Creek
- Gunnison Cut (manmade)
- Sawpit Creek
- manmade canal
- South Amelia River
- manmade canal
- Kingsley Creek
- Amelia River
- Cumberland Sound Florida/Georgia state line
External links
- US Army Corps of Engineers - Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway information site (http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/misc/nws83-10/toc.htm)
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (http://www.atlintracoastal.org/)