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M a R Y L a N D V I R G I N 300 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 3, Chapter 12 26 SEP 2021 77°20'W 77°W 76°40'W 76°20'W 39°N Annapolis Washington D.C. 12289 Alexandria PISCATAWAY CREEK 38°40'N MARYLAND 12288 MATTAWOMAN CREEK PATUXENT RIVER PORT TOBACCO RIVER NANJEMOY CREEK 12285 WICOMICO 12286 RIVER 38°20'N ST. CLEMENTS BAY UPPER MACHODOC CREEK 12287 MATTOX CREEK POTOMAC RIVER ST. MARYS RIVER POPES CREEK NOMINI BAY YEOCOMICO RIVER Point Lookout COAN RIVER 38°N RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER Smith VIRGINIA Point 12233 Chart Coverage in Coast Pilot 3—Chapter 12 NOAA’s Online Interactive Chart Catalog has complete chart coverage http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml 26 SEP 2021 U.S. Coast Pilot 3, Chapter 12 ¢ 301 Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River (1) This chapter describes the Potomac River and the above the mouth; thence the controlling depth through numerous tributaries that empty into it; included are the dredged cuts is about 18 feet to Hains Point. The Coan, St. Marys, Yeocomico, Wicomico and Anacostia channels are maintained at or near project depths. For Rivers. Also described are the ports of Washington, DC, detailed channel information and minimum depths as and Alexandria and several smaller ports and landings on reported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), these waterways. use NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts. Surveys and (2) channel condition reports are available through a USACE COLREGS Demarcation Lines hydrographic survey website listed in Appendix A. (3) The lines established for Chesapeake Bay are (12) described in 33 CFR 80.510, chapter 2. Anchorages (13) Vessels bound up or down the river anchor anywhere (4) ENCs - US5VA22M, US5VA27M, US5MD41M, near the channel where the bottom is soft; vessels US5MD43M, US5MD44M, US4MD40M, US5MD40M sometimes anchor in Cornfield Harbor or St. Marys River. Charts - 12233, 12286, 12288, 12289, 12285 Above Alexandria, vessels usually go to the wharves; there is little or no anchorage for anything but small craft. Near the mouth of the river, small craft can find secure (5) Potomac River flows into the west side of anchorage in most of the tributaries; Smith Creek is said Chesapeake Bay 68.4 miles above the Virginia Capes. to have best protection from all winds. The west bank of the river, generally, is the boundary between Virginia on the west and Maryland on the east, and at the head of tidewater on the east bank is the city (14) Fishtrap areas extend upriver from the mouth to of Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. St. Clements Island. Limits of the areas are shown on the (6) Hains Point at the junction of Anacostia River and chart. Mariners are warned that numerous uncharted duck the Washington and Georgetown Channels is 94.6 miles blinds and fishing structures, some submerged, may exist above the mouth of the Potomac. The head of tidewater in the fishtrap areas; such structures are not charted unless navigation is at Chain Bridge, Washington, 101 miles known to be permanent. above the mouth. The widest point of the river, 6.4 miles, (15) Numerous markers, established and maintained is 11 miles above its mouth. by the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, mark the (7) Mileages on Potomac River in this chapter, such as Maryland and Virginia jurisdictional fishing boundaries Mile 13E, Mile 41W, and Mile 51N, are the nautical miles on both sides of the Potomac River from Chesapeake above the midchannel entrance point, which is 4.8 miles Bay to Mattawoman Creek at Mile 71.5E in Maryland northwest of Smith Point on a line between Smith Point and Occoquan Bay at Mile 73.8W in Virginia and at the and Point Lookout; that point is 68.4 miles above the entrances to many of the bays and rivers. Capes. The letters N, S, E or W following the mileage (16) The markers are pile structures with white square numbers denote by compass points the side of the river daymarks with orange borders and identifying black where each feature is located. letters “PRM,”“PRV” and numbers. (8) It is to be understood that the mileages given are (17) approximations. The intended degree of accuracy is only Danger zones and restricted area supposed to be enough to put the user of the chart in the (18) The Potomac River and its tributaries are used general vicinity of the cited object, for the purpose of extensively by the military establishments for testing locating the object. operations and gunnery practice. (Limits and regulations (9) Traffic on the river consists chiefly of petroleum for these areas are given in 33 CFR 334.230, 334.240 and products; sand, gravel and crushed rock and some 334.250, chapter 2.) newsprint and fertilizers. Drafts of vessels navigating (19) the river usually do not exceed 20 feet. Tides (10) (20) Above Washington, the river is tidal as far as Chain Channels Bridge. The tides are influenced by the force and direction (11) The Federal project depth is 24 feet for Potomac of the wind and by freshet conditions and may at times River from the mouth to Hains Point. Channel depths of vary considerably. Daily predictions for Washington, 38 feet or more are available to Ragged Point, 20 miles 302 ¢ U.S. Coast Pilot 3, Chapter 12 26 SEP 2021 DC, are available from the Tide prediction service at with sufficient coordination. Contact the pilot office for tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov. Links to a user guide for this information. service can be found in chapter 1 of this book.. (32) The Virginia Pilots Association offers pilotage to (21) any vessel bound for a port in Virginia or Washington, Current DC. The Association of Maryland Pilots offers pilotage to (22) The current in Chesapeake Bay off the mouth of any vessel bound for a port in Maryland or Washington, Potomac River can be hazardous to smaller vessels and DC. (See Pilotage, chapters 3 and 9.) pleasure boats at ebb tide, when wind and current are (33) opposed and with northwest winds. These conditions ENCs - US5VA22M, US5VA27M, US4MD40M, are more pronounced off Smith Point. The currents in US5MD40M the Potomac River follow the general direction of the Charts - 12233, 12285 channel. The velocities vary throughout the river and are influenced by wind and freshets. There may be little or (34) Potomac River is entered between Smith Point and no flood current during freshets. Point Lookout; the width of the entrance, normal to the (23) The current velocity is weak in the lower part of the channel, is about 5 miles. river between the entrance and Piney Point, averaging (35) The fishtrap areas in the lower river are shown on less than 1.0 knot. See the Tidal Current prediction service the charts. at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov for specific information (36) about times, directions, and velocities of the current at Danger zones numerous locations throughout the area. Links to a user (37) Danger zones for military testing operations extend guide for this service can be found in chapter 1 of this from the mouth of the river to about 4 miles above the book. Potomac River Bridge, Mile 43.4. (See 33 CFR 334.230, (24) chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) When military firing Ice operations are in progress in the danger zones, range (25) During severe winters the tributaries of the Potomac patrol boats with white hulls and international orange are closed by ice and the river is frozen over to Cedar superstructures and shoreline spotters are stationed near Point; the upper part is then closed to navigation. During the firing areas. The range patrol boats display a square ordinary winters the powered vessels plying the river red flag during daylight hours and an all-round red light keep the channel open. from the mast at night. Surface traffic on the range is (26) When threatened by icing conditions, certain lighted controlled by the range patrol boats and the shoreline buoys may be replaced by lighted ice buoys with reduced spotters on VHF-FM channel 16. candlepower or by unlighted buoys, and certain unlighted buoys may be discontinued. (38) Smith Point, the southerly entrance point, is low and (27) inconspicuous. A shoal area that extends eastward from Freshets the point has depths as little as 8 feet 2 miles from shore; (28) Freshets occur at irregular intervals but usually do a buoy marks the northeast edge of the shoal. not interfere with navigation below Alexandria unless (39) Smith Point Light (37°52'47"N., 76°11'01"W.), 52 accompanied by floating ice. feet above the water, is shown from a white square brick (29) tower and octagonal dwelling on a brown cylindrical pier Pilotage, Potomac River about 2.5 miles east-southeast of the point. A lighted bell (30) Pilotage is compulsory on the Potomac River for buoy 1.5 miles from the light marks the separation lane foreign vessels and U.S. vessels under register in the of the Traffic Separation Scheme (Smith Point)for the foreign trade. Pilotage is optional for U.S. vessels in the bay ship channel. The Scheme discussed in chapter 9. coastwise trade who have on board a pilot licensed by the (40) Little Wicomico River, used by local fishermen Federal Government for these waters. and pleasure craft, empties into the Potomac River and (31) The Chesapeake and Interstate Pilots Association Chesapeake Bay at Smith Point. The approach to the river offers pilot services to U.S. vessels engaged in the is marked by a light. A marked dredged channel leads coastwise trade and public vessels to Piney Point. from the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay junction Arrangements for pilots may be made through ships’ through a jettied entrance to a marked natural channel in agents or the pilot office in Norfolk (telephone, 757-855- the river.
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