Pamlico Sound
By Donyé Williams
Estuaries
Pamlico Sound is an estuary that is located in North Carolina along the East coast. It is 80 miles long and 15-20 miles wide. An estuary is a body of freshwater that joins and mixes with a body of saltwater (Usually a ocean). Estuaries are important because they help control erosion and reduce flooding of the mainland.
Animals and plants in Pamlico Sound
Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Water Connections
Water drains into this sound from eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, from the Chowan, Roanoke, Pasquotank, Pamlico, and Neuse Rivers, from marshes, swamps, forests, and grasslands.
Threats of Estuaries
- Land bordering surrounding the estuaries
- Contamination
- Human Habitation
- Sewage Systems being built.
- Draining wetlands for farming
- Etc.
- http://www.outerbanks.com/pamlico-sound.html
- http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/544
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico_Sound
- http://www.cbf.org/about-the-bay/more-than-just-the-bay/creatures-of-the-chesapeake/striped-bass-rockfish
- http://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/previous-issues/2012-2/summer-2012/the-pamlico-sound-fishing-gem-of-north-carolina/