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Start of the Historic Ship Canal Trail, part of the Cross Florida Greenway along the route of the unfinished Cross Florida Barge Canal One of the two completed sections of the Barge Canal, looking west from the SR 19 bridge south of Palatka A map of the Cross Florida Barge Canal as planned and built The Cross Florida Greenway bridge over I-75 One of the supports for the never completed bridge ...
Putnam County Barge Port is a port facility and industrial development area located in Palatka, Florida, United States. Positioned on the waters of the St. Johns River, tenants enjoy access to navigable waters maintained at 40 feet by the Army Corps of Engineers. The area is also accessible by CSX rail line and US 17.
Originally planned as part of the Cross Florida Barge Canal project, the bridge was under construction at the time of the decision by President Richard Nixon to halt work on the canal project, and it was decided to complete the high-level bridge, which opened in 1972.
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1976: "An Interim Report on the Cross-Florida Barge Canal" In Defense of Rivers, A Citizen's Workbook: Impacts of Dam and Canal Projects. Delaware Valley Conservation Association, pp 138–46. 1978: Archie F Carr, Marjorie H Carr and Anne B Meylan. "The West Caribbean green turtle colony" in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. [9]
Barge Canal may refer to one of these projects: Canaveral Barge Canal, in Brevard County, Florida; Cross Florida Barge Canal, a never-completed project to connect the St. Johns River to the Gulf of Mexico; St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal, another cancelled project; New York State Barge Canal, the successor to the Erie Canal
The idea of the $369 million Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project is to use stormwater pumps, narrow canals and holes cut under roads to slow down the flow of water from major canals into ...
St. Lucie Lock and Dam on the Okeechobee Waterway, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southwest of Stuart, Florida.According to the lock webpage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lock chamber is "50 feet wide x 250 feet long x 10 feet deep at low water", [2] showing that the design of the canal system and waterway is for shallow barges and not a ship canal.