The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is an artificial waterway on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana, which connects the Grand Calumet River to Lake Michigan. It consists of two branch canals, the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) Lake George Branch and the 2 miles (3.2 km) long Grand Calumet River Branch which join to form the main Indiana Harbor Canal.
The canal also functions as a harbor (Indiana Harbor). The outer harbor is sheltered by two bulkheads marked by lights including the Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light.[1] Ships enter the outer harbor from the north.[1] The inner harbor consists of the canal itself.[1] The entrance to the outer harbor lies near Indiana Shoals, which extend up to 5 miles offshore, where water depths are as shallow as 15 feet.[1]
In 2002, Indiana Harbor was the 45th busiest harbor in the United States, handling almost 13,300,000 short tons (12,000,000 metric tons) of cargo. Foreign trade accounted for only 500,000 short tons (450,000 metric tons) of that. Indiana Harbor is maintained by the Chicago District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1913.
The IndianaHarbor East Breakwater Light is an active aid to navigation that marks the end of a breakwater on the east side of the IndianaHarborand Ship...
shore of Lake Michigan and the IndianaHarborandShipCanaland operated by BP. The facility is primarily located in Whiting, Indiana, USA, though portions...
The Grand Calumet is divided into an East and West branch, on the respective sides of the IndianaHarborCanal. The East Branch, which drains entirely into...
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year, the original line between East Chicago andIndianaHarbor was abandoned. The Chicago South Shore and South Bend turned a profit during World War...
battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana. Texas and USS Maine, commissioned three years later in 1895...
Congressional river and harbor improvement projects, the most prominent of which was IndianaHarbor, Indiana River andHarbor Act of 1914, Oct. 2, 1914...
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