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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 ...
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
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 ...
Texas City Dike; Texas City disaster; Texas City Independent School District; Texas City Prairie Preserve; Texas City refinery explosion; Texas City Terminal Railway; Texas City Texans; Texas City tin smelter; Texas First Bank
Dike is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. [1] Dike has a post office, with the ZIP code 75437. [2] On May 6, 2023, Dike voted on whether to incorporate into the city of Dike; the measure failed, with 32 votes in favor against 108 opposed.
Route 2 (including alternatives 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3), using the Texas City Dike as a corridor The preferred corridor is Route 1-3, the Pelican Island alternative. One estimate for the cost of the bridge was $240 million.
The Ike Dike is a proposed coastal barrier that, when completed, would protect the Galveston Bay in Texas, United States. The project would be a dramatic enhancement of the existing Galveston Seawall , complete with floodgates, which would protect more of Galveston , the Bolivar Peninsula , the Galveston Bay Area , and Houston .
Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...