river mouth
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Beaches near the river mouth and the sewage treatment plant outfall have regularly been closed because of high levels of bacteria in the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
SNH has collected specimens of stranded whales in the seashore and river mouth in Hokkaido.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
It was a controversial decision, prosecutors said in court papers, because in the Platte River’s natural, non-dredged state, the river mouth became too shallow for boats to pass.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
At the river mouth, Mike Ruby, a Manhattan Beach resident, paddled out on his surfboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
It enables him to communicate with a matching transceiver upstairs, with two other anti-air batteries inside the walls of the city, and with the underground garrison command across the river mouth.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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