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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal |
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122 km lang kanaal die in de jaren
1958-1968 is aangelegd door de United States Army Corps of Engineers om
een kortere route te maken tussen de Golf
van Mexico en het inner harbor Industrial
Canal in New Orleans. Het kanaal biedt een alternative route
om de Mississippi heen, met een
breedte van 167 m en een diepte van ca. 12,5 m. |
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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal |
122 km langer Kanal, der unter Umgehung des unteren
Mississippi als Abkürzung der
Strecke vom Hafen von New Orleans in den Golf
von Mexiko 1965 in Betrieb genommen wurde. Die Planung geht auf
die 20er Jahre und die Fertigstellung des Industrial
Canal zurück, von dem der Kanal abzweigt. |
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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal |
authorized by a March 29, 1956 Act of Congress
to provide an emergency outlet from the Mississippi
River in the interest of National defense and general commerce
and as a safer and shorter route between the Port of New Orleans and the
Gulf of Mexico.
The MRGO extends over 76 miles from the Inner
Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) to the 38-foot depth contour in
the Gulf of Mexico. Construction
of the MRGO channel began in 1958 and was completed in 1968. All reaches
of the MRGO navigation channel were authorized as a 36-foot deep, 500-foot
bottom width waterway with the exception of the Bar Channel in the Gulf
of Mexico which was authorized as a 38-foot deep, 600-foot bottom width
waterway. The channel was dredged through shallow bays, coastal marshes
and cypress swamps. |
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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal |
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