Table 10. --Navigation channels designed by the U. S. Array Corps of Engineers, 



19681/ 



west coast of Florida, 



Name and location 



Length 



Controlling 

 depth 



Stage of 

 completion 



Miles- 



Intracoastal Waterway (Miami to Key West) 158.0 



Everglades Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Everglade) 9.2 



Naples (Naples to Big Marco Pass) 14.2 



Fort Myers Beach (San Carlos Bay to Matanzas Pass).... 2.1 



Okeechobee Waterway (San Carlos Bay to Indian River).. 154.6 

 Intracoastal Waterway (Caloosahatchee River to 



Anclote River) 160.0 



Charlotte Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Punta Gorda) 29.5 



New Pass (Gulf of Mexico to Sarasota) 4.0 



Manatee River (Tampa Bay to Rye) 23.8 



Little Manatee River (Tampa Bay to Ruskin) 5.4 



Tampa Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa and Tampa). 67.0 



Pass-A-Grille Pass (Gulf of Mexico to Boca Ciega Bay). 2.9 



St. Petersburg Harbor (Tampa Bay to St. Petersburg)... 6.6 



Johns Pass (Gulf of Mexico to Boca Ciega Bay) 2.2 



Clearwater Pass (Gulf of Mexico to Clearwater Harbor). 3.0 



Ozona Channel (Intracoastal Waterway to Ozona) 1.3 



Anclote River (Gulf of Mexico to Tarpon Springs) 8.5 



Pithlachascotee River (Gulf of Mexico to Port Richey) . 3.2 



Hudson River (Gulf of Mexico to Hudson) 3.3 



Homosassa River (Gulf of Mexico to mouth of river).... 0.8 



Crystal River (Gulf of Mexico to Crystal River) 9.0 



Withlacoochee River (Gulf of Mexico to Croom) 89.1 



Florida Power Corp. Channel (Gulf of Mexico to FPC 



Power Plant, near Crystal River) 10. 



Cross Florida Barge Canal (Gulf of Mexico to 



St. Johns River) 107.0 



Cedar Keys Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Cedar Key) 11.0 



Suwannee River (Suwannee Sound to Ellaville) 139.0 



Horseshoe Cove (Gulf of Mexico to Horseshoe Beach).... 1.8 



Steinhatchee River (Gulf of Mexico to Steinhatchee) . . . 4.8 

 Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Apalachee Bay to 



Mexican Border) 379.0 



St. Marks River (Apalachee Bay to St. Marks) 12.7 



Panacea Harbor (Apalachee Bay to Panacea) 3.7 



Carrabelle Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Carrabelle) 8.7 



Apalachicola Bay (Gulf of Mexico to Apalachicola) 13.0 



Port St. Joe (Gulf of Mexico to Port St. Joe) 15.4 



Panama City Harbor (Gulf of Mexico to Panama City).... 4.4 

 Grand Lagoon at Panama City (St. Andrew Bay to 



Grand Lagoon) 2.1 



Choctawhatchee River (Mouth to Newton, Alabama) 146.0 



LaGrange Bayou (Choctawhatchee Bay to Freeport) 6.1 



East Pass Channel (Gulf of Mexico to Choctawhatchee 



Bay) 1.8 



Blackwater River (East Bay to Milton) 12.0 



Escambia & Conecuh River (Escambia Bay to Andalusia, 



Alabama) 142.9 



Pensacola Harbor (Culf of Mexico to Pensacola) 13.7 



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... 



Sources: U. S. Army, Corp of Engineers (1966; 1968a, b) . 



— Kilometers = statute miles x 1.61. 



-Meters = feet x 0.305. 



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— Miami to Cross Bank completed; Cross Bank to Key West unimproved. 



— Except 9 ft. from Boca Grande to Punta Gorda. 



- Except 2 ft. from Rocky Bluff to Rye. 



- Except 28 ft. in Port Tampa Channel, 23 ft. in Garrison Channel (just north of Seddon Island), 

 and 9 ft. in Hillsborough River. 



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- Except 12 ft. in Bayboro Harbor and 14.5 ft. east of the Point Pinellas lighted beacon. 



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