The Broad Sound North Entrance Channel or Boston North Channel is the deepest of three shipping channels connecting Boston Harbor to Massachusetts Bay near Boston, Massachusetts. [1] For this reason, almost all deep-draft ships use this channel. [2]
The 1,500-foot-wide (460 m) channel starts south of the Deer Island Light at the eastern end of the President’s Roads anchorage and proceeds northeastward to Broad Sound, passing eastward of Finn's Ledge. [2] The channel's depth was recently increased to 51 feet (16 m) in order to attract the larger New Panamax ships in use since the Panama Canal expansion project's 2016 completion. [1] [3]
References
- ^ a b Technical Working Group. "Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Feasibility Report and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Project Update – 3 December 2012" (PDF). United States Army Corps of Engineers. p. 3. Retrieved 16 November 2023. - copy of PowerPoint presentation
- ^ a b "U.S. Coast Pilot 1" (PDF). United States Coast Pilot. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 12 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ Hrvacevic, Zlatan (24 August 2022). "Spotlight on Boston Harbor dredging project". Dredging Today. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
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