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Intracoastal Waterway
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
Florida
- Florida Bay
- Baker Cut (manmade)
- Buttonwood Sound
- Grouper Creek
- Tarpon Basin
- Dusenberg Creek
- Blackwater Sound
- Jewfish Creek
- Jewfish Creek Bridge (US 1 (SR 5 ))
- Barnes Sound
- Little Card Sound
- Card Sound Bridge
- Card Sound
- Biscayne Bay
- Rickenbacker Causeway
- Dodge Island Bridge (SR 886 )
- MacArthur Causeway (SR A1A)
- Venetian Causeway
- Julia Tuttle Causeway (I-195 (SR 112 ))
- North Bay Causeway (SR 934 )
- Broad Causeway (SR 922 )
- Biscayne Creek
- Sunny Isles Causeway (SR 826 )
- Dumfoundling Bay
- manmade canal
- William Lehman Causeway (SR 856 )
- Hallandale Beach Bridge (SR 858 )
- SR 820
- SR 822
- SR A1A
- Stranahan River
- 17th Street Causeway (SR A1A)
- New River
- New River Sound
- SR 842
- Middle River
- manmade canal
- SR 838
- SR 816
- SR 870
- SR 814
- SR 844
- Hillsboro River
- SR 810
- manmade canal
- El Camino Real
- Lake Boca Raton
- Palmetto Park Road
- manmade canal?
- Lake Wyman
- Lake Rogers
- SR 800
- manmade canal
- Linton Boulevard
- SR 806
- Northeast 8th Street
- Southeast 15th Avenue
- SR 804
- Lake Worth
- Lake Worth Creek
- US 1 (SR 5 )
- SR 786
- Donald Ross Road
- SR 706
- Loxahatchee River
- US 1 (SR 5 )
- Jupiter Sound
- CR 707
- Hobe Sound
- Jupiter Narrows
- CR 707
- 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
- South Causeway (SR A1A)
- North Causeway (SR 44 )
- Ponce de Leon Cut (manmade)
- Halifax River
- Halifax Creek
- Smith Creek
- Knox Memorial Bridge
- SR 100
- manmade canal
- Fox Cut (manmade)
- manmade canal
- Palm Coast Parkway
- Matanzas River
- SR 206
- SR 312
- Bridge of Lions (SR A1A)
- Tolomato River
- Vilano Beach Bridge (SR A1A)
- manmade canal
- Tolomato River
- manmade canal
- Palm Valley Bridge (SR 210 )
- Pablo Creek
- Sisters Creek
- SR 105
- Gunnison Cut (manmade)
- Sawpit Creek
- manmade canal
- South Amelia River
- manmade canal
- Kingsley Creek
- SR A1A/SR 200
- Amelia River
- Cumberland Sound Florida/Georgia state line
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