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Delaware Bay

American  

noun

  1. an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between eastern Delaware and southern New Jersey. About 70 miles (115 kilometers) long.


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Forecasters also warned of strong winds in coastal areas, gale-force winds offshore, and moderate coastal flooding along Delaware Bay and widespread minor coastal flooding elsewhere.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2023

If the virus shows up in this year’s Delaware Bay samples, it will be yet another sign that H5N1 is becoming increasingly entrenched in North America.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2023

The first aviary focuses on shorebirds — plovers, sandpipers, sanderlings — that come to the Delaware Bay around Cape May, N.J., to munch on horseshoe crab eggs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023

Congress banned the manufacture of PCBs in 1979, but PCB contamination persists in the Delaware River, Delaware Bay and several inland waterways in Delaware.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Besides that there were all kinds of environmental worries—that salinity levels below the dam would rise catastrophically, for example, devastating the ecology lower down, not least the valuable oyster beds of Delaware Bay.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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