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  2. Texas City, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater built of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting. The dike, famous among locals as being "the world's longest man-made fishing pier ", extends roughly 5.2 mi (8 km) to the southeast into the mouth of ...

  3. Texas City Dike - Wikipedia

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    The dike is parallel to and north of the 50-foot deep, 600-foot wide Texas City Channel, which allows shipping traffic to access the Port of Texas City. The dike's structure consists of a 28,200-foot-long (approximately 5.34 miles) pile dike paired with a rubble-mound dike that runs along the south edge of the pile dike (U.S. Army Corps of ...

  4. Bolivar Roads (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The natural waterway inlet has a depth of 45 feet (14 m) with an island to peninsula shoreline width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km). The ship canal approach is defined by two jetties extending into the Gulf of Mexico with distances of 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the Bolivar Peninsula and 2.25 miles (3.62 km) from Galveston Island.

  5. A 1950s-era sand transfer plant still feeds Palm Beach, but ...

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    The idea was shelved, World War II started, pausing the Boynton Inlet pumping, and it wasn’t until the mid 1950s that the idea of a Lake Worth Inlet sand transfer plant resurfaced.

  6. What is a jetty? What is a jon boat? - AOL

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    A 16-foot jon boat. This is the style of boat that 2 duck hunters were using when they took on water in North Myrtle Beach, SC on the evening of January 26, 2023.

  7. Ponce Inlet, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Ponce Inlet lies on a peninsula at (29.094744, –80.942599), [4] adjacent to the Ponce de León Inlet, and between the Halifax River and Atlantic According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 14.7 square miles (38 km 2 ), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km 2 ) is land and 10.3 square miles (27 km 2 ) (70.48%) is water.

  8. File:Ponce Inlet Lighthouse 02.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Ponce Inlet; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org ... Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery14.0.8064.206: File change date and time: 14:22, 21 September 2009: Y and C positioning:

  9. Texas “Ike Dike” coastal barrier project could cost $57 ...

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