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The Corpus Christi Ship Channel is a deep water navigable ship canal located in Corpus Christi, Texas. It is part of the Port of Corpus Christi, managed and controlled by the Corpus Christi Port Authority. The depth of the channel is 45 feet (14 meters). It is used mostly for heavy industry and the export and import of goods.
The Harbor Bridge Project (or New Harbor Bridge or US 181 Harbor Bridge) is the replacement of the existing through arch bridge that crosses the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, which serves the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, with a modern cable-stayed bridge design.
The Ship Channel Improvement Project, which is currently underway to widen the channel to 530 feet and deepen it to 54 feet to increase the capacity for crude oil trade by providing space for Very ...
The Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge is a through arch bridge in Corpus Christi, Texas, that carries six lanes of U.S. Route 181 (US 181) and Texas State Highway 35 (SH 35) from downtown Corpus Christi to Rincon Point, known to locals as North Beach. The bridge crosses the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and handles
Port officials have said discharging into the Corpus Christi Ship Channel could be done safely with planned mitigations, while opponents have argued that there would be no adequate mitigations to ...
The EPA recently reversed its original position on the project and said Bluewater Texas Terminal would have to meet more stringent standards.
The Corpus Christi Ship Channel’s current depth of 45 feet was completed in 1990, 22 years after the project was authorized by Congress in 1968. Shortly after the 45-froot dredging project was finished, Congress gave authorization to further study improvements to the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, including the extension and deepening of the La ...
Southern Alkali, the first heavy industry to begin operating in Corpus Christi, opened in 1934 along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.