Friday, March 29

Good News: Dismal Swamp Canal To Open by the end of September

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Here’s good news if you’re heading south this fall. The Dismal Swamp Canal, the 22-mile cut of an alternate route of the Intracoastal Waterway through parts of Virginia and North Carolina, will reopen by the end of September. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will be able to complete dredging of the canal to a 6-foot controlling depth by then. The Corps closed the canal after Hurricane Matthew last October, and has cleared more than 350 trees from the waterway since then and dredged shoals as shallow as one foot.

The oldest operating man-made canal in the U.S., originally proposed by George Washington and opened in 1805, the Canal starts at ICW mile 7.2 just below Norfolk, Virginia, and flows to Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The main route of the ICW goes through Virginia Cut and Coinjock down to Albemarle Sound.

For more:  https://dismalswampwelcomecenter.com/boating /

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