Lagoon definition

Lagoon means a naturally existing coastal zone depression which is below mean high water and which has permanent or ephemeral communications with the sea, but which is protected from the sea by some type of naturally existing barrier. [Section 373.403(16), F.S.]
Lagoon means a body of water or surface impoundment designed to manage or treat waste water.
Lagoon means a liquid manure storage and treatment pond.

Examples of Lagoon in a sentence

  • Salt Island Lagoon is a fresh to brackish pond, which appears to be either fed by surface water runoff or by springs.

  • The January to March and December results are from Secondary Digester Sludge, whereas April to November results are from WWTC Storage Lagoon sample results.

  • In Chuuk, these include the underwater WWII wrecks in the Lagoon as well as the terrestrial sites and structures associated with the Japanese military base.

  • Lagoon decanting is estimated to account for approximately 8,025 m3 of flow through the plant in 2023.

  • The project is expected to link these households to the City's sewage treatment network, thereby mitigating the leakage of pollutants from those homes to the Indian River Lagoon.


More Definitions of Lagoon

Lagoon means an impoundment made by constructing an excavated pit, dam, embankment or combination of these for treatment of waste by anaerobic, aerobic or facultative digestion.
Lagoon means a pond containing raw or partially treated wastewater in which aerobic and/or anaerobic stabilization occurs;
Lagoon means an impoundment used in conjunction with an animal facility, the primary function of which is to store or stabilize, or both, manure, organic wastes, wastewater, and contaminated runoff.
Lagoon means any earthen or partially earthen impoundment that is used for the treatment of sewage.
Lagoon means any pond, natural or artificial, receiving raw or partially treated sewage or waste, in which stabilization occurs due to sunlight, air and micro-organisms.
Lagoon means any large lined holding or detention pond, usually with earthen dikes, that is used to contain wastewater while sedimen- tation and biological stabilization occurs.
Lagoon means a Ministry of Environment approved waste stabilization pond consisting of an earthen basin designed and built for wastewater treatment to reduce the organic content and remove pathogens from wastewater.