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With over 120 square miles (310 km 2) of surface area Willapa Bay is the second-largest riverine estuary on the Pacific coast of the continental United States. [2] Early settlers called the bay Shoalwater Bay and this name is found on old maps and charts of the region.
It is the second largest estuary complex in the United States. The peninsula is made up of wildlife preserves, agricultural lands, and both federal- and state-owned preserves. [ 2 ] It previously contained over 500,000 acres of Atlantic white cedar forest ; less than 5% of this remains due to farming and drainage of the area that began with ...
Elkhorn Slough is a 7-mile-long (11 km) [2] [3] tidal slough and estuary on Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California. It is California's second largest estuary and the United States' first estuarine sanctuary. [4] The community of Moss Landing and the Moss Landing Power Plant are located at the mouth of the slough on the bay.
Charlotte Harbor Estuary is a natural estuary spanning the west coast of Florida from Venice to Bonita Springs on the Gulf of Mexico and is one of the most productive wetlands in Florida. [1] The estuary has a large watershed, and includes Charlotte Harbor itself as well as the Peace River, Caloosahatchee River (via Pine Island Sound) and ...
It is the largest estuary in the United States. Delaware Bay, an extension of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Delaware, the United States; Great Bay, an extension of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States; The Lower Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, the United States
Humboldt Bay (Wiyot: Wigi) [3] is a natural bay [4] and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon [5] located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, the second-largest enclosed bay in California ...
With over 3,000 sq. mi. (7,800 km 2) of open water [3] the combined estuary is second only in size to 4,479 sq mi (11,600 km 2) Chesapeake Bay in the United States. The Pamlico Sound is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks , a row of low, sandy barrier islands that include Cape Hatteras National Seashore , Cape Lookout National ...
[31] [32] [33] The estuary is a major shipping center, the heart of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Port of Houston, Port of Texas City, and Port of Galveston drive much economic activity on the waterways. [34] Petrochemical industries are concentrated along the western shore, and the estuary also supports Texas's largest commercial fishery ...