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Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

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Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

System of inland waterways, including rivers and canals, along the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It extends from Apalachee Bay, Fla., west to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, a distance of more than 1,100 mi (1,770 km). It includes Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, passes through New Orleans, and takes in the Sabine-Neches Waterway and the ship canal at Houston. Together with its counterpart, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, it forms the Intracoastal Waterway, a shipping route that extends for 3,000 mi (4,800 km) in the southern and eastern U.S.



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The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway extends into Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
The two-mile floodwall, designed as part of a system to provide 100-year-level storm protection to the city and surrounding areas, extends from the north of Louisiana's Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to the south of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO).
NYSE:PNR) announced that it recently was awarded a contract to provide thirteen of the company's Fairbanks Morse ("Fairbanks") pumps to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex in New Orleans, La.
 
 
 
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