Boat Ed Course Paid. Boating Regulations. Fishing Resources. Weekend Fishing Forecast. Fishing Reefs. Fishing Blog. The early history behind the ICW The 3,mile inland waterway of today was originally the solution to shipping hazards that were created by travel on the Atlantic coast.
The dredged canals and connected waterways became known as the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, ultimately linking Jacksonville to Miami in The company and Flagler worked in tandem for a while, but also were in competition as both the railway and canal operations moved south. Over a year period between and , the company constructed miles of canals, earning more than a million acres of state land.
Henry Flagler ended up with a quarter of this land for the Florida East Coast Railway extension to Miami in the s. When Sydney O.
No one ever made a permanent residence on the island. Rayonier owned thousands of acres of forests in the Palm Coast area while Levitt had the experience of building large housing tracts. By additional land was purchased from the Wadsworth and Yarn families of Flagler County.
Preliminary layouts of the Hammock Dunes project were made at that time, but no housing development proceeded until the late s. A Sheraton hotel near the site of the Hammock Dunes Club was open from to A small ferry operated across the Intracoastal Waterway near the site of the Palm Coast Bridge, with a minibus taking people to the Sheraton and the beach.
The Palm Coast Bridge opened in The lot layout of Island Estates was approved by government authorities by early Construction of several homes began in , and in several families took residence in Capri Court, the first being Joan and Herb Brattlof.
Today, about 95 homes are occupied or under construction. As almost all the lots are sold, residents took over the Island Estates Neighborhood Association from the developer in April, Under Florida Law, e-mail address are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. Powered By Revize Login. The waterway from Trenton, New Jersey, to the St.
Marys River was twelve feet in depth and the United States desired to deepen it to the same depth from the St. Marys River to the St. Johns River, but upon the same conditions that local interests should provide the necessary rights-of-way, spoil disposal areas, etc.
However, there was no local agency authorized by law or willing to perform these conditions to obtain the improvement, so in , the Legislature by Chapter authorized and empowered the Navigation District to do this.
Subsequently, the Navigation District has acquired and conveyed these areas to the United States and has furnished the necessary rights-of-way and the United States has deepened and improved the waterway from the St. Johns River near Jacksonville to a depth of twelve feet and a width of one hundred twenty-five feet.
For several years, the United States had been considering the deepening of the Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami to a depth of twelve feet, to correspond with the depth from Jacksonville to Trenton, New Jersey. In , however, the project was unfavorably reported to the Board of Engineers. The principal function of the Navigation District has been to furnish to the United States that necessary cooperation which the United States requires as a condition precedent to its improvement of the waterway.
A partnership exists between the United States and the State of Florida, acting by and through the Navigation District whereby the United States agrees to construct and maintain the Intracoastal Waterway and the Navigation District agrees to furnish to it, free of cost, the necessary rights-of-way and areas for the deposit of dredged material in connection with the subsequent maintenance of the canal. The nature of the land through which the waterway runs is such that shoaling occurs, requiring repeated dredging to provide the minimum channel.
So long as the United States does the work necessary to maintain the waterway to the depth of ten feet or twelve feet, just so long will it be necessary for local interests, acting through the Navigation District, or some other similar agency, to provide rights-of-way and spoil disposal areas. When local interests discontinue doing their part of the work, then we may expect the United States to discontinue its part.
The Legislature enacted Chapter , Laws of Florida which established the taxing power of the District at 0. By the United States had completed the project from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce, Florida, to the authorized depth of twelve feet and the project width of one hundred twenty-five feet. From Fort Pierce to Miami, Florida, the project has been completed to a depth of ten feet for the full project width of one hundred twenty-five feet.
In , the U. Congress appropriated sufficient funds for the U. Army Corps of Engineers to undertake an economic feasibility study of the costs and benefits to be derived from deepening the channel from 10 feet to 12 feet from Fort Pierce to Miami.
This study revealed the costs of deepening the channel two feet would exceed the benefits. In view of these findings the Navigation District Board of Commissioners decided that until circumstances change, further study on deepening the Waterway would be inappropriate. During the early 's it became apparent to the District and the Army Corps of Engineers that the inventory of existing spoil disposal sites did not meet the current or future maintenance needs of the waterway.
The majority of the existing spoil sites were found to be unusable because of their environmental sensitivity or their small size. The Florida Inland Navigation District through coordination with the Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Environmental Regulation and the Department of National Resources formulated a plan for a pilot study to determine the spoil disposal needs of the waterway in Nassau and Duval Counties for the next fifty years and to provide a permanent infrastructure of sites to manage this material for potential reuse.
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