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  2. Laguna Madre (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Laguna Madre has a salinity of 36 parts per thousand (ppt), [12] which is above the seawater average of 35 ppt. [13] Because of the high salinity, it holds the distinction as one of the Earth's six hypersaline lagoons/bays, the others being Sivash in Ukraine, Laguna Ojo de Liebre on the west coast of Baja California, Spencer Gulf and Shark Bay ...

  3. Intracoastal Waterway - Wikipedia

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    A section of the Intracoastal Waterway in Pamlico County, North Carolina, crossed by the Hobucken Bridge. The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to ...

  4. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway - Wikipedia

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    The waterway provides a channel with a controlling depth of 12 ft (3.7 m), designed primarily for barge transportation. Although the U.S. government proposals for such a waterway were made in the early 19th century, [3] the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was not completed until 1949. [4]

  5. Port Mansfield Channel - Wikipedia

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    Port Mansfield Channel or Mansfield Cut is an artificial waterway encompassing the Laguna Madre positioned at the 97th meridian west on the earth's longest barrier island known as Padre Island. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During Post–World War II , the tidal inlet was dredged as a private channel differentiating North Padre Island better known as Padre ...

  6. Estuaries of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Laguna Madre Estuary is located along the southern coast of Texas in Nueces, Kenedy, Kleberg, Willacy, and Cameron Counties, extending almost to the border with Mexico. [5] It is a long, shallow lagoon with no major river sources, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by Padre Island and Brazos Island and connecting with it through the Port ...

  7. Drinkable seawater: Port Isabel to build desalination plant - AOL

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    Jul. 26—With approval of a $10 million Texas Water Development Board loan, the Laguna Madre Water District will build a 10 million gallon seawater desalination plant in Port Isabel using water ...

  8. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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    A 1976 United States NOAA chart of part of Puerto Rico A nautical chart of the Warnemünde harbor shown on OpenSeaMap. A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks.

  9. Laguna Madre Water District, TX -- Moody's assigns Aa2 to ...

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    Rating Action: Moody's assigns Aa2 to Laguna Madre Water District, TX's GOULTGlobal Credit Research - 17 Mar 2022New York, March 17, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned an Aa2 rating to ...