Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The South Lake Worth Inlet, also known as the Boynton Inlet, is an artificial cut through a barrier beach connecting the south end of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach County, Florida with the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet is 130 feet (40 m) wide and 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.7 m) deep.
The only outflow from the lake was through a swamp that became the Lake Worth Creek as it approached the Loxahatchee River and Jupiter Inlet. In 1866 travelers reported that fresh water was pouring out of the lake into the ocean at a point about ten miles south of the Jupiter Inlet. One report is that a settler named Lang had dug the channel to ...
Construction of a stable inlet at the "Black Rocks" one mile (1.6 km) north of Lang's Inlet was finally achieved in 1877. The lake immediately began to change to a saltwater lagoon. The completion of a navigation canal from the north end of Lake Worth Lagoon to Jupiter Inlet in the 1880s resulted in increased freshwater discharges to the lagoon.
Slurry gushes from a pipe on the south side of the Lake Worth Inlet on Feb. 19, 2021 after a month-long pause in pumphouse operations because of necessary repair. On the right background of the ...
Typically the water comes out of the C-51 canal between Lake Worth Beach and West Palm Beach. The Boynton Beach Inlet is 8 miles to the south. The Palm Beach/Lake Worth Inlet is 10 miles to the north.
South Lake Worth Inlet; Spanish River (Florida) This page was last edited on 25 June 2017, at 21:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The 6,000-square-foot home in Lake Worth Beach is on a rare corner waterfront lot on a gated street with just seven homes. It was built in 2001 but a description on real estate site Movoto said ...
The main barrier landmasses are split by four inlets: the Jupiter Inlet, the Lake Worth Inlet, the South Lake Worth Inlet, and the Boca Raton Inlet. Two of the four inlets are natural, but significantly altered – the Jupiter and Boca Raton inlets – while the Lake Worth and South Lake Worth inlets are man-made, with the former dug in the ...