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National Estuary Program, the Glossary

In the United States, the National Estuary Program (NEP) provides grants to states where governors have identified nationally significant estuaries that are threatened by pollution, land development, or overuse.^[1]

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Estuaries of the United States
Water resource management in the United States

Albemarle Sound

Albemarle Sound is a large estuary on the coast of North Carolina in the United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan and Roanoke.

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Barnegat Bay

Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Buzzards Bay

Buzzards Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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California Public Records Act

The California Public Records Act (Statutes of 1968, Chapter 1473; currently codified as Division 10 of Title 1 of the California Government Code) was a law passed by the California State Legislature and signed by governor Ronald Reagan in 1968 requiring inspection or disclosure of governmental records to the public upon request, unless exempted by law.

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Casco Bay

Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States.

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Charlotte Harbor (estuary)

Charlotte Harbor Estuary, the second largest bay in Florida, is located on the Gulf of Mexico coast of west Florida with two thirds lying in Charlotte County, Florida and one in Lee County.

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Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Environmental flow

Environmental flows describe the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well being that depend on these ecosystems.

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Environmental governance

Environmental governance (EG) consists of a system of laws, norms, rules, policies and practices that dictate how the board members of an environment related regulatory body should manage and oversee the affairs of any environment related regulatory body which is responsible for ensuring sustainability (sustainable development) and manage all human activities—political, social and economic.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Galveston Bay

Galveston Bay is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas.

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Governor (United States)

In the United States, a governor serves as the chief executive and commander-in-chief in each of the fifty states and in the five permanently inhabited territories, functioning as head of state and head of government therein.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Indian River Lagoon

The Indian River Lagoon is a grouping of three lagoons: the Mosquito Lagoon, the Banana River, and the Indian River, on the Atlantic Coast of Florida; one of the most biodiverse estuaries in the Northern Hemisphere and is home to more than 4,300 species of plants and animals.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Land development

Land development is the alteration of landscape in any number of ways such as.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles County Superior Court

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County.

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Maryland Coastal Bays Program

The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) is one of the 28 United States National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act. National Estuary Program and Maryland Coastal Bays Program are United States Environmental Protection Agency.

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Massachusetts Bay

Massachusetts Bay is a bay on the Gulf of Maine that forms part of the central coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. National Estuary Program and Mobile Bay are estuaries of the United States.

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Morro Bay, California

Morro Bay (Morro, Spanish for "Hill") is a seaside city in San Luis Obispo County, California.

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Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering, of which is in Rhode Island.

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National Estuarine Research Reserve

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System is a network of 30 protected areas established by partnerships between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and coastal states.

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New York Harbor

New York Harbor is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay.

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Nutrient pollution

Nutrient pollution, a form of water pollution, refers to contamination by excessive inputs of nutrients.

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Pamlico Sound

Pamlico Sound is a large estuarine lagoon in North Carolina.

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Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE) is a regional nonprofit organization working to protect and enhance the Delaware Estuary, where fresh water from the Delaware River mixes with salt water from the Atlantic Ocean.

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Peconic Bay

The Peconic Bay is the parent name for two bays (Great Peconic Bay and Little Peconic Bay) between the North Fork and South Fork of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Piscataqua River

The Piscataqua River (Abenaki: Pskehtekwis) is a tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from its origin at the confluence of the Salmon Falls River and Cochecho River to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.

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River engineering

River engineering is a discipline of civil engineering which studies human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.

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San Francisco Estuary Partnership

The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (Partnership) is one of the 28 National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act.

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San Juan Bay

San Juan Bay (Bahía de San Juan) is the bay and main inlet adjacent to Old San Juan in northeastern Puerto Rico.

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Santa Monica Bay

Santa Monica Bay is a bight of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, United States.

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Sarasota Bay

Sarasota Bay is a lagoon located off the central west coast of Florida in the United States.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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Texas Coastal Bend

The Texas Coastal Bend, or just the Coastal Bend, is a geographical region in the US state of Texas.

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Tillamook Bay

Tillamook Bay is a small inlet of the Pacific Ocean, approximately 6 mi (10 km) long and 2 mi (3 km) wide, on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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Urban runoff

Urban runoff is surface runoff of rainwater, landscape irrigation, and car washing created by urbanization.

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Water pollution

Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.

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Water quality

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Estuary_Program

National Estuary Program, the Glossary

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Estuaries of the United States

Water resource management in the United States

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