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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Mar 2010
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More boating!
On 3/22/10 9:45 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:49:01 -0400, wrote:
I'm not familiar with your area. The bad is an estuary so it should be
mostly freshwater. It's a huge body of water so the tides can only
affect a small portion of the bay, right?
Uh...wrong.
Thanks for clearing that up.
BTW - Google is no help, I did look there.
You might try the NOAA weather buoys. They may have salinity numbers.
The ocean should be in the 37-38 PPT range as a guide. Contact
solution is about 5.
My little river is a true estuary and I get from about 20 in the end
of the dry season to low single digits in the rainy season. That is 3
miles up, what most people would call a creek, from a small bay that
is another 2 miles from the gulf..
Some have salinity readings, but the two nearest me don't. At the
moment, the one near the convergence of the Bay and the Potomac reads
about 10, but it's amid a rush of fresh water.
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