The St. George Island Channel, locally known as Bob Sikes Cut, is located within the Apalachicola Bay Aquatic Preserve, near the city of Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida. The Apalachicola Bay is a shallow coastal plain lagoon-estuary system that encompasses an area of approximately 160 square miles. The St. George Island Channel separates St. George Island into two islands named St. George Island and Little St. George Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District completed the existing project in April 1957 with the construction of two jetties on the Gulf and a channel dredged to a depth of 10 feet.