List of canals in the United States
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The following is a list of canals in the United States:
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[edit] Transportation canals in operation
- Augusta Canal
- Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
- Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
- Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts)
- Cascades Canal
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
- Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
- Dalles-Celilo Canal
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
- Erie Canal (New York)
- Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
- Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Mary's Fall Ship Canal
- Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
- Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
- Intracoastal Waterway, includes:
- Galveston and Brazos Canal
- Dismal Swamp Canal
- The Cross-Florida Barge Canal was intended as part of the Intracoastal Waterway
- Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
- Louisville and Portland Canal
- Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Louisiana)
- Portage Lake Canal
- St. Clair Flats Canal
- Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
[edit] Abandoned transportation canals
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Bellows Falls Canal
- Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
- Cayuga and Seneca Canal
- Champlain Canal
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Chenango Canal
- Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (only partially completed)
- Columbia Canal
- Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
- Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine 1821-1873)
- Delaware and Hudson Canal
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Des Moines Rapids Canal
- Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
- Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
- Hennepin Canal
- Hocking Canal
- Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Little Falls Canal
- Miami Canal
- Miami and Erie Canal
- Middlesex Canal
- Milan Canal
- Morris Canal (New Jersey)
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- Oswego Canal
- Pawtucket Canal
- Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works
- Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
- Portage Canal
- Sandy and Beaver Canal
- Santee Canal
- Savannah Ogeechee Canal
- Schuylkill Navigation
- South Hadley Canal
- Suwanee Canal
- Union Canal
- Wabash and Erie Canal
- Walhonding Canal
- Warren County Canal (Ohio)
- Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
[edit] Irrigation and drainage canals
- All-American Canal
- California Aqueduct
- Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
- Coachella Canal
- Colorado River Aqueduct
- Contra Costa Canal
- Hillsboro Canal
- Inter-California Canal
- Los Angeles Aqueduct
- Miami Canal
- North New River Canal
- St. Lucie Canal
- Tamiami Canal
- West Palm Beach Canal
- El Paso Canal
- Franklin Canal (Texas)
- American Canal
- Riverside Canal (El Paso)
- Texas irrigation canals
[edit] Natural inlets
Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets which use the name canal.
[edit] See also
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