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| | BoatUS Government Affairs: ICW - Creating A Coastal Constituency, November 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, commonly referred to as the ICW or just ”the Ditch” by boaters, is the 1,100-mile route of protected waters and man-made channels threading the coast from Norfolk, VA, to Miami. |
 | | Up and down the waterway, meeting participants heard the same story: the Bush Administration is cutting ICW dredging budgets, Congress won’t or can’t appropriate the needed funds, except in a few localized areas, and Corps says its hands are tied. |
 | | The next step, she said, is to compile a report of the meetings and the mood of waterway users for delivery to Congress as well as to state capitals along the waterway early in 2004. |
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