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Estuaries are those water bodies in which a significant hydrodynamic transport mechanism is caused by astronomical tides and other similar mechanisms. For the purposes of water quality analysis, the “estuary” is that portion of the river that is under the influence of tidal action in which the dispersion factor is always significant. An official, more comprehensive definition is contained in Section 104 (n) (4) of the US Water Pollution Control Act Amendment of 1972 [1], and documented in a general chapter on “Surface Water Quality Analysis.”
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Wang, M.H.S., Wang, L.K. (1986). Water Quality Control of Tidal Rivers and Estuaries. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C. (eds) Water Resources and Natural Control Processes. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 4. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4822-4_2
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