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The Tidal Basin is a man-made reservoir located between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C. The Basin is part of West Potomac Park , is near the National Mall and is a focal point of the National Cherry Blossom Festival held each spring.
Aerial view from the south of East Potomac Park and the Washington Channel, ca. 1935. On June 16, 2010, District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill (H.R. 5545) into the House of Representatives during the 111th United States Congress that would have transferred responsibility for part of the Washington Channel from the Army Corps of Engineers to the District. [4]
Mudflats near Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand. Tidal flats, along with intertidal salt marshes and mangrove forests, are important ecosystems. [7] They usually support a large population of wildlife, [8] and are a key habitat that allows tens of millions of migratory shorebirds to migrate from breeding sites in the northern hemisphere to non-breeding areas in the southern hemisphere.
Head of tide, tidal limit [2] or tidehead [3] is the farthest point upstream where a river is affected by tidal fluctuations, [4] or where the fluctuations are less than a certain amount. [5] The river section influenced by tides and marine forces but without salinity is a tidal river , while downstream areas are brackish and termed estuaries .
Painted relief map of the Tidewater region on the east coast of the United States in darkest green to one shade lighter green to the west. "Tidewater" is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States. It is located east of the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line and north of the Deep South.
Ownership of lands submerged by navigable waters was resolved by Congress passing the Submerged Lands Act, [16] which confirmed state title to the beds of all tidal and navigable bodies of water. While the act conveyed land title to the states, non-navigable stream beds remained treated like dry lands and contiguous to the adjoining estates.
Rank Designation ZCTA Population Per Capita Income 1 Montchanin, Delaware [2]: 19710 68 654,485 2 Houston, Texas: 77010 76 283,189 3 Rockland, Delaware [3]: 19732