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The Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) 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.

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA) - AIWA is a national non-profit organization founded in 1999 with the mission of securing funding and support for the maintenance of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW).

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway - The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) runs parallel to the Gulf of Mexico’s coastline, stretching more than 1,100 miles from St. Marks, Florida, to the southernmost tip of Texas in Brownsville. This shallow-draft, man-made channel is only 12-feet deep and 125-feet wide but it is an integral part of the inland waterway transportation system in the United States.

The GIWW is the third-busiest inland waterway in the United States. Nearly 285,000 vessels carrying more than 110 million short tons of cargo traveled on the waterway in 2018. The GIWW is uniquely positioned to link the ports along the Gulf Coast to major inland ports, such as Memphis, Chicago and Pittsburgh, via the Mississippi River and her tributaries. It also provides a means to connect domestic barge traffic with ocean-going vessel thereby making this waterway central to both intrastate and foreign trade in the United States.

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