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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 ...
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.
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
Conewago Canal: PA: 1797 1 mi (1.6 km) Cross Florida Barge Canal: FL: 30 mi (48 km) Partially completed Culpeper Gold Mine Canal: VA: Cumberland and Oxford Canal: ME: 1832 1873 38 mi (61 km) Songo Lock remains open Deep Run Canal: VA: Delaware and Hudson Canal: PA: 1828 1917 108 mi (174 km) NY: Delaware and Raritan Canal: NJ: 1834 1932 66 mi ...
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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.
The Cross Florida Barge Canal is navigable through the Buckman Lock with elevation changes of 19.2 feet. The Burrell Lock and Dam on Haynes Creek. The Dora Canal. The Apopka-Beauclair Canal. The river has suffered severe ecological damage in the 20th century from impoundment, fertilizer runoff, dredging, pollution and rerouting.
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]