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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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San Francisco Bay is the second-largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the Americas, following the Salish Sea in Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. [ 7 ] The bay was navigable as far south as San Jose until the 1850s, when hydraulic mining released massive amounts of sediment from the rivers that settled in those parts of the bay ...
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 ...