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At the mouth of the Bronx River, where upstream fresh water mixes
with salt water from the Atlantic in the Long Island Sound
© Hadas Kushnir of NYC Parks/Natural Resources Group


Estuaries host an enormous amount of aquatic wildlife, all of which needs oxygen to survive. Find out about dissolved oxygen. Go to Life Bubbles.

Check out the water-quality monitoring underway in the Bronx River estuary and get into nomograph know-how. Go to Test the Water.

Plants to the rescue. Find out how a salt marsh can breathe new life in an estuary. Go to Grow Oxygen.
The Bronx River turns into an estuary here at its mouth, where the fresh upstream waters join the salty water of the East River, an inland reach of the Atlantic Ocean's Long Island Sound.




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