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Choctawhatchee Bay
Choctawhatchee Bay is a bay in the Emerald Coast region of the Florida Panhandle. The bay, located within Okaloosa and Walton counties, is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico and has a surface area of 334 square kilometres (129 sq mi). It connects to Santa Rosa Sound in Fort Walton Beach, Florida to the west and to St. Andrews Bay in Bay County to the east, via the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. East Pass (also known as Destin Pass) is the only outlet of the bay flowing directly into the Gulf of Mexico, and is crossed by US 98. The Choctawhatchee River flows into the bay, as do several smaller rivers and streams. The tolled Mid-Bay Bridge (SR 293) crosses the bay, connecting the city of Destin to Niceville, Florida. The Judge Clyde B. Wells Bridge (US 331) crosses the eastern part of the bay, connecting Freeport to the coast.
The bay was charted by Spanish, French, and English expeditions, The bay appears on some charts as "St. Rose's Bay".
Following the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, small bands of Creeks lived on the shores of Choctawhatchee Bay.
At the beginning of the 1900s, Choctawhatchee Bay was mainly freshwater and had a small channel to the Gulf of Mexico. During a storm in 1929, the bay's water level increased and threatened homes on the bay with flooding. Locals dug a small trench near Destin to release the water, which quickly eroded into a large channel, creating today's large Destin's Pass or East Pass. The larger channel increased the bay's salinity, significantly changing its ecosystem.
As noted in a 1993 Eglin AFB report, Test Area D-55 was originally installed in the World War II era by Eglin Air Force Base with "omnidirectional radar corner reflectors" on top to be used as a radar target range. Test Area D-55 is formed by 25 arrays of 2,040 wood pilings placed east of the Clyde B. Wells Bridge. They are located in 8 feet of water and the array extends for 1.2 miles.
Choctawhatchee Bay contains sea grass beds that are significant to the sustainability of the fish and invertebrates within the bay. These include shrimp, eastern oysters, spotted sea trout, gulf menhaden, red drum, blue crab, gulf flounder, striped mullet, and white mullet.
Portions of the bay are protected as Class II waters of the State, setting a standard for water quality to prevent illness from bacteria and other possible contaminants. Commercial and recreational shellfish harvesting is practiced within these waters.
Several towns and cities are located around the Choctawhatchee Bay:
Choctawhatchee Bay
Choctawhatchee Bay is a bay in the Emerald Coast region of the Florida Panhandle. The bay, located within Okaloosa and Walton counties, is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico and has a surface area of 334 square kilometres (129 sq mi). It connects to Santa Rosa Sound in Fort Walton Beach, Florida to the west and to St. Andrews Bay in Bay County to the east, via the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. East Pass (also known as Destin Pass) is the only outlet of the bay flowing directly into the Gulf of Mexico, and is crossed by US 98. The Choctawhatchee River flows into the bay, as do several smaller rivers and streams. The tolled Mid-Bay Bridge (SR 293) crosses the bay, connecting the city of Destin to Niceville, Florida. The Judge Clyde B. Wells Bridge (US 331) crosses the eastern part of the bay, connecting Freeport to the coast.
The bay was charted by Spanish, French, and English expeditions, The bay appears on some charts as "St. Rose's Bay".
Following the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, small bands of Creeks lived on the shores of Choctawhatchee Bay.
At the beginning of the 1900s, Choctawhatchee Bay was mainly freshwater and had a small channel to the Gulf of Mexico. During a storm in 1929, the bay's water level increased and threatened homes on the bay with flooding. Locals dug a small trench near Destin to release the water, which quickly eroded into a large channel, creating today's large Destin's Pass or East Pass. The larger channel increased the bay's salinity, significantly changing its ecosystem.
As noted in a 1993 Eglin AFB report, Test Area D-55 was originally installed in the World War II era by Eglin Air Force Base with "omnidirectional radar corner reflectors" on top to be used as a radar target range. Test Area D-55 is formed by 25 arrays of 2,040 wood pilings placed east of the Clyde B. Wells Bridge. They are located in 8 feet of water and the array extends for 1.2 miles.
Choctawhatchee Bay contains sea grass beds that are significant to the sustainability of the fish and invertebrates within the bay. These include shrimp, eastern oysters, spotted sea trout, gulf menhaden, red drum, blue crab, gulf flounder, striped mullet, and white mullet.
Portions of the bay are protected as Class II waters of the State, setting a standard for water quality to prevent illness from bacteria and other possible contaminants. Commercial and recreational shellfish harvesting is practiced within these waters.
Several towns and cities are located around the Choctawhatchee Bay:
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