Salinity in Lake Pontchartrain varies from negligible at the northern cusp west of Mandeville up to nearly half the salinity of seawater at its eastern bulge ...

Many small rivers drain the Florida Parishes and introduce freshwater into Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, the great mixing zone of fresh and saline water.

Due to the input of freshwater through rivers, streams and rainfall runoff, the Pontchartrain Estuary is a low salinity basin.

Areas north of this line are freshwater. Areas south of this line are saltwater, including Lakes Maurepas, Pontchartrain, and St. Catherine, Chef Menteur ...

One of the defining characteristics of Lake Pontchartrain is its brackish water. This type of water is a mix of fresh and saltwater, with the salinity varying ...

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish lake in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second largest salt-water lake in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in ...

Currently the lake is at an average salinity level of 0.4 ppt (parts-per-thousand). A normal salt solution would be 10 ppt, according to Bradshaw. These ...

19 апр. 2024 г. · Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary, containing brackish water (a mix of salt water and fresh water). Fresh water flows into it, but it is low ...

This reduction in riverine input plays a part in the major critical problem in the Pontchartrain Basin--increased salinity.