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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 195 / Wednesday, October 13, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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Narragansett Bay is one of Rhode Islands principle water features.
Narragansett Bay is approximately 22
nautical miles nmi 40 kilometers km long and 7 nmi 16 km wide. The average depth of Narragansett Bay is 29
ft. The Narragansett Bays most prominent bathymetric feature is a submarine valley that runs between Conanicut and Aquidneck Islands to Rhode Island Sound, and defines the East Passage of Narragansett Bay. The shipping channel in the East Passage serves as the primary shipping channel
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for the rest of Narragansett Bay and is generally 100 ft deep. The shipping channel from the lower East Passage splits just south of Gould Island with the western shipping channel heading to Quonset Point and the eastern shipping channel heading to Providence and Fall River Navy, 2008.
Coddington Cove is located on the western side of Aquidneck Island and is a protected embayment formed by Coddington Point to the south and a 4,000 ft long rubble-mound breakwater to the north. It covers an area of 1.6

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square nmi with water depths up to 50
ft The area is a Restricted Area and is closed to all commercial and recreational vessel traffic, unless authorized by the appropriate personnel Navy, 2008. According to a 2015
bathymetric survey of Coddington Cove, water depths in the proposed project area are less than 34 ft mean lower low water. Water depths in the pier are artificially deep to accommodate the berthing of large ships NAVFAC, 2015.
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