| | Indian River Lagoon Main Insert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Given that the lagoon is 156 miles long, water clarity can vary throughout its reaches; however, the identified pollutants and factors that influence them are involved to some degree in reducing light penetration of the water column in all segments of the lagoon. |
 | | Within the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River and north/central Indian River Lagoon areas, the most recent data available (1996) show 57,179 acres of sea grass is 56 percent of the potential 101,997 acres of sea grass. |
 | | The lagoon is an estuary, a water body where the freshwater of its tributaries mixes with the salt water of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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