Bolivar Roads (Texas) Explained

Bolivar Roads
Map:Bolivar Roads Galveston Texas.jpg
Map Size:325px
Pushpin Map:Texas
Pushpin Map Relief:y
Pushpin Map Caption:Galveston Bay Entrance Channel
Coordinates:29.3505°N -94.7527°W
Length Mi:7
Length Km:11.2
Original Length Km:42.2
Original Length Mi:26.2
Length Note:Morgan's Point[1]
Xfield1:Jetty Harbor System
Modern Name:Doorway to Galveston Bay
Present Owner:State of Texas
Xvalue2:Bolivar Roads.
Xfield2:Topo Map
Direction:North
Begin Coord:29.3348°N -94.6884°W
End Coord:29.3627°N -94.7996°W
Start Point:Texas Gulf Coast
End Point:Texas City Dike
Xfield3:GNIS feature ID

Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast.[2] The natural waterway inlet has a depth of 45feet with an island to peninsula shoreline width of 1.5miles.

The ship canal approach is defined by two jetties extending into the Gulf of Mexico with distances of 4.5miles from the Bolivar Peninsula and 2.25miles from Galveston Island. The jetty harbor entrance originated in the 1890s as a preventative structure to inhibit the coastal sediment transport progressions by means of deviations with the continental margin and the Gulf Stream ocean current.

The Bolivar Roads channel tailors a nautical navigation gateway for Galveston Bay, Houston Ship Channel, Port of Galveston, and West Bay.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dimensions of the HSC, Tributary Channels, and Turning Basins . Houston Ship Channel Feasibility: Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas . October 28, 2019 . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . 10.
  2. Bolivar Roads