Estuaries definition

Estuaries means waters, including coastal lagoons, located at the mouths of streams which serve as mixing zones for fresh and ocean waters. Coastal lagoons and mouths of streams which are temporarily separated from the ocean by sandbars shall be considered as estuaries. Estuarine waters shall be considered to extend from a bay or the open ocean to a point upstream where there is no significant mixing of fresh water and sea water. Estuarine waters include, but are not limited to, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined in Section 12220, Suisun Bay, Carquinez Strait downstream to the Carquinez Bridge, and appropriate areas of the Smith, Mad, Eel, Noyo, Russian, Klamath, San Diego, and Otay Rivers.

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Estuaries means characteristically brackish coastal waters in well-defined basins with a continuous or seasonal surface connection to the ocean that allows entry of marine fauna. Estuaries may be either natural or developed.

Examples of Estuaries in a sentence

The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program is an administrative agency established under this Interlocal Agreement as authorized by Section 791.013(a) of the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
Each Party authorizes the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, which is created by this Interlocal Agreement, to carry out the governmental functions enumerated in this Interlocal Agreement.
The entity, now known as the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, was created through the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program's Management Conference, and is being implemented and governed by this Interlocal Agreement.
Pledge and Security Agreement (US) dated 16 March 2001, as amended by a first amendment dated 14 July 2001, granted by TCI/US West Cable Communications Group and others in favour of CIBC World Markets PLC as security trustee regarding interests in Estuaries Cable Limited Partnership.
Pledge and Security Agreement (US) dated 14 July 2004 granted by TCI/US West Cable Communications Group and others in favour of CIBC World Markets PLC as security trustee regarding interests in Estuaries Cable Limited Partnership.
Estuaries also contribute greatly to ecological processes such as detritus cycling (▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2005).
Estuaries serve many functions in the life histories of salmonids by providing habitat for smoltification, rearing, migration, and refuge.
Estuaries provide a critical transition area between fresh and salt water for anadromous fish species; physiological transitions occur within the estuary.
RWQCB Clean Water Act 401 401 Water Quality Certification – In 2019, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted a State Wetland Definition and Procedures for Discharges of Dredged or Fill Material to Waters of the State (Procedures) for inclusion in the forthcoming Water Quality Control Plan for Inland Surface Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries and Ocean Waters of California.
The Bays Council of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program shall initially consist of one designated representative of each of the Parties and each of the Implementors of the CBBEP, and such other persons or representatives as are chosen by the Executive CouncilBoard of Directors from time to time.

More Definitions of Estuaries

Estuaries means characteristically brackish coastal waters in well-defined basins with a continuous or seasonal surface connection to the ocean that allows entry of marine fauna.

Estuaries means characteristically brackish coastal waters in well-defined basins with a continuous or seasonal surface connection to the ocean

Estuaries means waters within the District to the landward side of the closing lines as set out in the schedule of to this Byelaw;

Estuaries means waters within the District to the landward side of the closing lines set out below;