MOBILE RIVER

The 'Mobile River' is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, the approximately 45-mile-long (72 km) river drains an area of 44,000 sq mi (115,000 km²) of Alabama, with a watershed extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its drainage basin is the sixth-largest in the United States. The river has historically provided the principal navigational access for Alabama. Since construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River watershed.
The Tombigbee and Alabama River join to form the Mobile River approximately 50 mi (80 km) NNE of Mobile, along the county line between Mobile and Baldwin counties. The combined stream flows south, in a winding course. Approximately 6 mi (10 km) downstream from the confluence, the channel of the river divides, with the Mobile flowing along the western channel. The Tensaw River, a bayou of the Mobile River, flows alongside to the east, separated from 2 to 5 mi (3 to 8 km) as they flow southward. The Mobile River reaches Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico just east of downtown Mobile.

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Crossings

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Crossings

This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Mobile River from Mobile Bay upstream to its source at the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. Proposals for a new bridge to carry Interstate 10 over the river have been debated for several years. Currently the Alabama Department of Transportation iconducting an environmental impact study for such a crossing and into the widening of the Mobile Bayway, which carries Interstate 10 over Mobile Bay. The location of this bridge is of great debate with some parties pushing for a crossing south of the current tunnels while others are opposed to anything south of the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge.

Crossing	Carries	Location	Coordinates
George Wallace Tunnel	Interstate 10	Mobile
Bankhead Tunnel	U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 98
Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge	U.S. Route 90 Truck U.S. Route 98 Truck
14-Mile Bridge	CSX
General W.K. Wilson, Jr. Bridge	Interstate 65

See also

★ List of Alabama rivers

Notes

1.
"River Plume Productivity" (short title), Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS),
''Oceanic Atlas of the Gulf of Mexico'', 2001-10-04, web:
USF-edu-RPlumeProd.

External links

★ USGS: Mobile River Basin

★ University of Alabama: Mobile River System

★ Mobile River Terminal