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St. Lucie Lock and Dam on the Okeechobee Waterway, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southwest of Stuart, Florida.According to the lock webpage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lock chamber is "50 feet wide x 250 feet long x 10 feet deep at low water", [2] showing that the design of the canal system and waterway is for shallow barges and not a ship canal.
Start of the Historic Ship Canal Trail, part of the Cross Florida Greenway along the route of the unfinished Cross Florida Barge Canal One of the two completed sections of the Barge Canal, looking west from the SR 19 bridge south of Palatka A map of the Cross Florida Barge Canal as planned and built The Cross Florida Greenway bridge over I-75 One of the supports for the never completed bridge ...
The Edison Bridge seen in the foreground, with the Caloosahatchee River Bridge in the background and downtown Fort Myers to the left The Isaiah D. Hart Bridge , as seen from TIAA Bank Field While the Courtney Campbell Causeway itself is almost 10 mi (16.1km) long, its longest over-water span (center-left) is just over one half-mile (804.7m) long.
Thirty-three hundred cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.1 billion gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee is discharged through the St. Lucie Lock and Dam on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Martin County.
Whether you're new to the Treasure Coast or want to learn about the water pollution crisis, this will help you understand Lake O discharges.
In 2013, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dumped 137 billion gallons of water into the St. Lucie River from Lake Okeechobee. [4] The USACE noted they "do share the concern about the quality of the water being released" but also noted that poor water quality was the state's fault in a release called "setting the record straight." [5]
In civil engineering, clearance refers to the difference between the loading gauge and the structure gauge in the case of railroad cars or trams, or the difference between the size of any vehicle and the width/height of doors, the width/height of an overpass or the diameter of a tunnel as well as the air draft under a bridge, the width of a lock or diameter of a tunnel in the case of watercraft.
Progress is being made on construction of the new $122 million U.S. 1 bridge over the Loxahatchee River and Intracoastal Waterway on March 26, 2024 in Jupiter, Florida.