Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast.[ Bolivar Roads] in [ Geonames.org (cc-by)] The natural waterway inlet has a depth of with an island to peninsula shoreline width of .
The ship canal approach is defined by two jetties extending into the Gulf of Mexico with distances of from the Bolivar Peninsula and 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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See also Aframax Bolivar Bridge Cargo Ship Capacity List of Panamax ports Panamax United States Maritime Environmental Law Refuse Act of 1899 MARPOL 73/78 Oil Pollution Act of 1924 Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships of 1980 Oil Pollution Act of 1961 Oil Pollution Act of 1990 Oil Pollution Act of 1973 Regulation of ship pollution in United States
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