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The Point Pleasant Canal is a canal in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. It was completed in 1925 to connect the Manasquan Inlet and Manasquan River with Bay Head Harbor on the northern end of Barnegat Bay. The canal is part of the Intracoastal Waterway. With the completion of the canal, the Barnegat Peninsula effectively became an
Passage to Bay Head Harbor and the Barnegat Bay is possible via the Point Pleasant Canal. The present Manasquan River Inlet was dug in the 1920s with the original inlet located at Stockton Lake. [1] The present day inlet is the northern terminus of the Intracoastal Waterway. The inlet is home to the Squan US Coast Guard station.
The bay is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, entered on its north end by the Point Pleasant Canal and connecting on the south end with Little Egg Harbor via the small Manahawkin Bay. In a broader sense, Barnegat Bay is sometimes considered to stretch to the south end of Long Beach Island and to include Little Egg Harbor.
Now a New Jersey dive team has found the ship. All but 16 of 132 people on board perished when Le Lyonnais sank in 1856 off Massachusetts. Now a New Jersey dive team has found the ship.
Point Pleasant Canal: Point Pleasant: NJ: 2 mi (3.2 km) Part of the Intracoastal Waterway: Port Townsend Ship Canal: Jefferson County: WA: 0.9 mi (1.4 km) Portage Lake Canal: Houghton County: MI: 2.5 mi (4.0 km) Part of Keweenaw Waterway: Sabine–Neches Waterway: Southeast Texas: TX: 64 mi (103 km) Calcasieu Parish: LA: Sacramento Deep Water ...
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The Manasquan River is a 26.5-mile-long (42.6 km) [1] waterway in central New Jersey.. It flows from western Monmouth County, beginning in Freehold Township, near the headwaters for the Manalapan Brook and Millstone River systems in the Raritan Basin, and flowing to the Atlantic Ocean, where it empties between the communities of Manasquan and Point Pleasant via the Manasquan Inlet. [2]