Is Lake Pontchartrain salt water or fresh water?

[FloridaPat]

[tx_dem41]

1. brackish (mixture of both)...n/t

[FloridaPat]

6. That will make the recovery hard. Anything with metal may have to

be replaced.

[Obamarama]

8. A mixture (fresh & salt) would be an estuary, which is not a lake.

If my Geology 101 from 17 years ago serves me correctly. And, an estuary would be formed from an outflow of fresh water from inland meeting with the saltwater near the sea.

[Teaser]

9. Not a real lake.

It is an arm of the sea, but with a very narrow inlet.

[tx_dem41]

11. Nose out of the textbook....I lived there for 17 years...

its brackish. I don't care about the textbook definition. (sorry for the rant).

[Obamarama]

15. No need to apologize! :-)

I didn't interpret it as a rant, Tex. Hey, I'm not above being corrected. Guess this means I loose geek points or something? :-)

[tx_dem41]

16. I won't tell.

:)

[Obamarama]

2. Lakes are, by their nature, freshwater.... eot

[RobertSeattle]

4. Um, the Great Salt Lake?

:evilgrin:

[Obamarama]

12. There are always exceptions to the rule....

SMART ASS! B-)

[karlrschneider]

5. This one is different, it gets a fair amount of sea water coming into it.

So the other poster was right it is brackish.

[Inland]

7. It's not really a lake lake.

It's closer to a bay with a narrow mouth.

The water is salty. I don't think it's drinkable.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. The real question is, "Would you drink water from that lake"?

[SeanQ]

10. Brakish. The gulf and the fresh rivers mix in the lake.

[Roland99]

13. More accurately, it's a bay, right?

It's open to the sea.

[Sgent]

14. It is named Lake potchatrain

in reality, it is a small bay with the mounths of many freshwater rivers coming together. It also connected to the Mississippi River (although not the primary source of dumping to the Gulf).