Canal in EHC

[pinelandpaddler]

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=18&X=1327&Y=10942&W=3&qs=|egg+harbor+city||

Notice the canal along Landing Creek. Does anyone know anything of its history?

 

[shetzer9213]

I've noticed it before & assumed it was just a drainage ditch created to help keep the Egg Harbor Yachts property dry.

 

[pinelandpaddler]

interesting speculation, shetzer. thanks

 

[pinelandpaddler]

I asked my Dad about the canal, and he informed me that chemicals were dumped into the creek via the canal. As a kid in the 60's, he and his friends referred to the creek as "shit crick"....