Intracoastal Waterway

Intracoastal Waterway is a 4,800 km (3,000 mile) long recreational and commercial waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Some lengths of the ICW are natural and others are manmade.

The creation of the Intracoastal Waterway was first authorized by the United States Congress in 1919, and is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The waterway consists of two non-contiguous segments: the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Brownsville, Texas to Caraballe, Florida, and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Key West, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts. The two segments were originally intended to be connected via a canal link across northern Florida, but this was never completed due to environmental concerns.

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