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Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 42 miles (68 km) long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States. It is separated from the Atlantic by the long Island Beach State Park (colloquially called a " barrier island "), as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island , popular segments ...
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The Metedeconk River / m ə ˈ t iː d ə k ʌ ŋ k / is a tributary of Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States.. The Metedeconk River flows from its 22.3-mile-long (35.9 km) [1] North and 22.6-mile-long (36.4 km) [1] South Branches to their confluence at Forge Pond, where the river widens (up to just over 1 mile (1.6 km)) and flows southeast for 6 miles (9.7 km) into ...
Passage to Bay Head Harbor and the Barnegat Bay is possible via the Point Pleasant Canal. The present Manasquan River Inlet was dug in the 1920s with the original inlet located at Stockton Lake. [1] The present day inlet is the northern terminus of the Intracoastal Waterway. The inlet is home to the Squan US Coast Guard station.
Roughly bounded by Bay and Atlantic Avenues, Pearl and 3rd Streets; later roughly bounded by Atlantic, Bay, 5th and Chatsworth 39°33′32″N 74°14′31″W / 39.558889°N 74.241944°W / 39.558889; -74.241944 ( Beach Haven Historic
Barnegat Bay The Point Pleasant Canal is a canal in Point Pleasant, New Jersey . It was completed in 1925 to connect the Manasquan Inlet and Manasquan River with Bay Head Harbor on the northern end of Barnegat Bay .
The river empties into the western side of Barnegat Bay, with mid-channel depths of 3.5 to 5 feet (1.1 to 1.5 m). [3] At 124 sq mi (320 km 2), the Toms River subwatershed is the largest drainage area of any river in the Barnegat Bay watershed. [4] It includes 11 municipalities in Ocean County and portions of southwestern Monmouth County. The ...
The inlet was originally named in 1614 "Barendegat," or "Inlet of the Breakers," by Dutch explorers of the coastline, referring to the waterway's turbulent channel. [ 1 ] Historically the inlet has been important to commerce to the Barnegat Bay region, allowing ships to access centers of commerce like Toms River .