Seabrook, a town on the N side at the entrance to Clear Creek, is headquarters for fishing and pleasure craft. Kemah is a town on the S side of the entrance to Clear Creek.
There are several large yacht basins at the W end of Clear Lake, and numerous marinas and boatyards are on the lake, on both sides of Clear Creek, and on the Seabrook channel.
Navigation:
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Clear Creek empties into the W side of Galveston Bay 20 miles NW of Galveston; 2 miles above its mouth the creek broadens into shallow Clear Lake, 2.5 miles long. A dredged channel leads from Galveston Bay through Clear Creek and across Clear Lake, thence a natural channel leads for another 3.3 miles through Clear Creek to the railroad bridge at League City. In 2010, the controlling depth was 2 feet (7 feet at midchannel) in the entrance channel; thence in 2009, 4 feet through Clear Lake, thence 7 feet in Clear Creek to the railroad bridge at League City. The Clear Creek entrance channel and the creek and lake channels are well marked with lights, buoys, and daybeacons. Seabrook Channel, a dredged side channel, leads N from the mouth of Clear Creek about 0.6 mile along the S waterfront of Seabrook. In 1988, the controlling depth was 2.0 feet. The channel from Galveston Bay to Clear Lake is reported to be highly congested with light commercial and pleasure-craft traffic, especially on weekends; a speed limit of 5 miles per hour is posted.
At the entrance to Clear Creek, an overhead power cable crosses the creek with a clearance of 99 feet. About 0.3 mile inside the entrance, a fixed bridge has a clearance of 73 feet. Overhead power cables at the bridge have a clearance of 100 feet. An overhead power cable 5.3 miles above the entrance has a clearance of 51 feet. A fixed bridge 5.6 miles above the entrance has a clearance of 23 feet.
