Sentence examples for closed lagoon from inspiring English sources

FuI individuals inhabit the inner side of a closed lagoon, a polluted ecosystem that communicates with the open sea through three narrow channels.

A freeway constructed in 1955 AD subsequently closed the lagoon's natural inlet and transformed the coastal water body into an artificial reservoir.

A scheme to build a mechanical barrage that could be raised in times of flooding to close the lagoon was initiated in 1988, when engineers began testing a prototype.

Speculation about the cause of the smell has also focussed on the wide inequality between the wealthy neighbourhoods close the lagoon and the favela slums on the hillsides, many of which still have open sewers that flood each February and March.

The endless debate on the most appropriate solution for the Venice safety seems to have recently come to a final conclusion with the official approval of MOSE, an impressive engineering project consisting of 79 mobile barriers planned to close the lagoon inlets during the most severe storms, thus preventing the sea from flooding the city.

The semi-closed lagoon was in existence between 6340 and 4880 cal.

yr BP the semi-closed lagoon turned into a closed waterbody.

The sediment record also contains geochemical and biological (diatom and foram) evidence for abrupt changes in salinity of lagoon waters that link to subsidence, tsunami flooding and to the open versus closed state of the lagoon tidal entrance.

The lagoon is closed to visitors right now, while the visitor centre is redeveloped.

The river mouth is presently an estuarine lagoon partially closed by a large spit constructed from an old barrier island system.

Median depth to water in sampled wells was 1.8 m, in July 2009 when the berm in the lagoon was closed.