Pamlico Sound Watershed (N.C.)

found: Work cat.: Water quality in the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia [ER] 1992-95, 1998.

found: Wikipedia, Aug. 11, 2008(Pamlico Sound in North Carolina, is the largest lagoon along the U.S. East Coast being 129 km (80 miles) long and 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 miles) wide; it is a body of water separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks, a row of low, sandy barrier islands, including Cape Hatteras; the Neuse and Pamlico rivers (the latter is the estuary of the Tar River) flow in from the west; Pamlico Sound is linked on the north with Albemarle Sound through Roanoke Sound and Croatan Sound (passages))