The East Rockaway Inlet is an arm of the

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which separates the

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from the

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which includes the

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communities of

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and Lido Beach. The inlet is on the south shore of Long Island. It provides for a channel 12 feet deep and 250 feet wide. A 3,000 foot jetty on the western side of the channel was authorized but never constructed, and was eventually deauthorized by Congress in 1977. According to a plaque in Long Beach, New York, the original inlet was through Long Beach directly opposite

East Rockaway East Rockaway is a village in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 9,818 at the 2010 census. The Incorporated Village of East Rockaway is at the edge of Rockaway Peninsula Proper in t ...

. New York, hence the name. A decision was made to create a new inlet between

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, New York, and Atlantic Beach and the original was filled in with the fill from the newly created inlet. The inlet is traversed by the

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. Its eastern extension is the

Reynolds Channel Reynolds Channel is a strait in Nassau County, New York that separates Long Beach Barrier Island, which contains the City of Long Beach and the villages of Atlantic Beach, Lido Beach, and Point Lookout, from Long Island, Barnum Island, Harbo ...

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The City's Southeastern Extreme
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