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Small Craft Advisory issued January 16 at 9:21PM EST until January 17 at 1:00AM EST by NWS
The town of Rockville is located on Wadmalw Island in Charleston County in the lowcountry region of South Carolina. The town’s Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic places due to the buildings with large porches and designs that are meant for summer comfort, reflecting the town’s historic role as a summer resort town. The town is along the Bohicket Creek, that leads to the North Edisto Creek and the Atlantic Ocean.
A marina at Rockville has berths with electricity and 16 feet reported alongside; gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, marine supplies, and a 3-ton lift are available. Hull, engine, and radio repairs are available.
Adams Creek, west of Rockville, has several shrimp-boat piers and wharves with depths of 6 to 9 feet alongside. A boatyard close to the piers, has a marine railway that can handle craft to 75 feet for hull and engine repairs. A 60-ton mobile lift can handle craft to 55 feet for hull and engine repairs.
A marina, about 3.3 miles above the mouth of Bohicket Creek, has various services and a reported centerline controlling depth of 6 feet in 1991
Navigation:
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Shoals extend offshore from the entrance of the North Edisto River as much as 3 miles and form a shifting bar. Flats, which bare at low water and are continually changing in character, are on both sides of the entrance; caution is advised. In 1991, the reported controlling depth over the bar was 10 feet. The entrance is marked by a lighted whistle buoy, and the channel by a 314° lighted range and by buoys which are moved, when practicable, to indicate the best water. The entrance is well defined by breakers. A water tank about 1.7 miles northeastward of the entrance is prominent.
Bohicket Creek entrance is about 2.5 miles above the entrance to North Edisto River. Rockville, a town about 1.1 miles above the mouth of Bohicket Creek, has several piers and wharves with 5 to 11 feet of water alongside. In 1980, the centerline controlling depth was 9 feet up the creek to Rockville.
Small Craft Advisory issued January 16 at 9:21PM EST until January 17 at 1:00AM EST by NWS