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  2. Laguna Madre (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Two types of hard reef are found in the lagoon bed and on the shoreline, including beach rock reefs (shell and sand bound by calcium carbonate cement) common south of Baffin Bay due to the occasional shifts in the Laguna Madre coastal shoreline; and Serpulid reefs, common in Baffin Bay, and elsewhere in the system, formed between 300 and 3,000 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Brazos Santiago Pass (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The waterway inlet is a navigable strait spanning a water depth of 42 feet (13 m) and a waterway channel distance of 1.14 miles (1.83 km). The Brazos Santiago channel and seaward approach is defined by parallel jetties designed with a breakwater separation of .25 miles (0.40 km).

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

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    I've been working with Laguna Madre Water District for 37 years. We started piloting seawater in 1997 at the South Padre Island jetties and we know we can make drinking water out of the sea ...

  8. Padre Island National Seashore - Wikipedia

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    Padre Island is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the world. The national seashore is 70 miles (110 km) long with 65.5 miles (105.4 km) of Gulf beach. PAIS hosts a variety of pristine beach, dune, and tidal flat environments, [2] including the Laguna Madre on its west coast, a famous spot for windsurfing.

  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 ...