Coastal waters. In the Great Lakes area, the waters within the territorial
jurisdiction of the United States consisting of the Great lakes, their
connecting waters, harbors, roadsteads, and estuary-type areas such as bays,
shallows, and marshes. In other areas, those waters, adjacent to the shorelines,
which contain a measurable percentage of sea water, including sounds, bays,
lagoons, bayous, ponds, and estuaries.
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Created by
Steve Leggans on Mar 19, 2014
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Anonymous
Apr 01, 2014Pam Parker, Maine DEP
Coastal waters includes areas that are not navigable? Not disagreeing at all, just want to be clear. Also, "measurable percentage of sea water" is pretty vague. I am not sure that EPA has a good definition, but it would be helplful if they were consistent. There are some river systems that have no measurable percentage of sea water that are navigable and might benefit CVA attention. Perhaps that is covered under another definition.
Anonymous
Apr 01, 2014Pam Parker Maine DEP, I went looking for EPA definitions and it just so happens they just issued a proposed rule on this very topic http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guidance/wetlands/CWAwaters.cfm.
In wading through that document, I am not sure what part(s) of the defintion may be most relevant to the CVA.
Anonymous
Apr 16, 2014Melanie Titus, NHDES: the Office of Naval Research gives a definition for freshwater: "salinity is usually less than 0.5ppt" (where ppt is parts per thousand). They go on to say more than that salinity is brackish water (including estuaries) so coastal waters definition could be something like "salinity usually more than 0.5ppth".
Anonymous
Apr 30, 2014Lynne V, NY - Coastal was misspelled (Costal), but looks like it was fixed.