Long Island Historians, Come Inside!

[Scream And Fly]

Alright, since I was very little I've always looked at maps and wondered what this long faint dredge trail is. We would run through parts of it in our boats back then, but I never realized it seems to be part of a very long area that was dredged, possibly a very long time ago. Does anyone know for sure what this is?

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[RONNIE]

Greg that was a barge canal long ago. it use to be for horse drawn barges. I remember seeing it some weres is some old documents but can't remember were. straight as an arow and deep would be great for drag racing!!!!

[Scream And Fly]

Very cool, thanks Ronnie. I remember using that cut near the run constantly years ago. I really miss boating there, lots of good times.

[stream18]

yeah gregg, by the first Wantagh bridge you could cut rite across to the other side. I did it a couple of times w the stream when i first got it from you.

[DerStream]

thats pretty cool, how much water is there at high tide?

[SUPAJAY]

I use to go through there with the inflateable all the time when i was a kid. Never tried it with the boat, but i go thru the tobay cut and the drain infront of zachs all the time.

[DerStream]

I finally figured it out months after the original post, Cedar Creek Water Treatment Plant it is right at the end of those to dredged areas, If you go to google earth & look at it again, not using the picture provided you can see on the ocean side the lines pick up again after it goes through the barrier island...they are the outflow & intake lines coming from the ocean & going back to the Cedar Creek plant. They had to dig up & burry them in the ground going through the bay & then to about a mile & a half off the beach. Took a while but finally figured it out.

[DerStream]

Correction the pipe runs 2.5 miles off shore & the facility was built in 1973 or sometime before then they layed the pipes & dug those lines out.