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estuary

[es-choo-er-ee] / ˈɛs tʃuˌɛr i /


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But “even though we’re beating it up,” Crooks said of the pollution flowing into the estuary, it’s been amazingly resilient in part because of constant monitoring and management.

From Los Angeles Times

The beach is a good place to watch ships sailing out from the mouth of the Mersey estuary into the Irish Sea.

From BBC

That's because fish have to swim within two metres of the pipe inlet heads, and the estuary is 22km wide at that point.

From BBC

He started asking questions, and I set about explaining some of the words, like “estuary” and “salinity.”

From Literature

Van der Schatte Olivier said: "They show that, even in a dynamic estuary like this, we can successfully restore seagrass at scale when we use the right methods."

From BBC