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About 18,000 years ago, Connecticut, Long Island Sound, and much of Long Island were covered by a thick sheet of ice, part of the Late Wisconsin Glacier. About 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in its interior and about 1,300 to 1,600 feet (400 to 500 m) thick along its southern edge, it was the most recent of a series of glaciations that covered the ...
[1] [2] It travels under the Long Island Sound between Westchester County and Long Island; this undersea section is roughly 8 miles (13 km) in length (the entire line is roughly 26 miles (42 km) long). [3] [1] [4] The average depth of the undersea section is 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) below the Long Island Sound's seabed. [1]
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Long Island Sound at night, with nearby settlements marked. The Long Island Sound link is a proposed bridge or tunnel that would link Long Island, New York, to Westchester County or Connecticut, across Long Island Sound east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. The project has been studied and debated since the mid-20th century.
The Cross-Sound Cable can transmit a maximum power of 330 MW at a voltage of +/- 150 kV DC. The maximum current for Cross-Sound Cable is 1175 amperes.The Cross-Sound Cable is not simply a pair of underwater HVDC cables; rather it is a bundle of cables that includes the HVDC transmission lines and fiber-optic cables for phone and Internet data transfer.
Long Island Sound is north of Long Island in New York and south of Connecticut. This category encompasses articles directly related to this body of water.
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[1] was first used in the American lexicon by the Long Island Soundkeeper Fund, Inc. in 1987 [2] upon the founding of an environmental protection organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of Long Island Sound. The name and the organization's principles were modeled after the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund. Later, both organizations ...