Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.

The pilot lagoon was located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area.

The pilot lagoon was designed to handle the wastes from 314 persons with a 4-day aeration period.

It seems that the aerated lagoon was a very heavily loaded oxidation pond or a lightly loaded activated sludge system.

It was found that the aerated lagoon was an activated sludge system rather than an oxidation pond.

Their report reveals that the lagoon water, while not tasting very good, was drinkable, though " muddy and dirty ".

The French explored reopening the lagoon and developing a harbor for trade and tourism during the 1970s, but this idea, too, was ultimately abandoned.

They reported that the lagoon water was drinkable, though they preferred to drink water from the coconuts they found.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because " of the inferior quality and low price of the dark-colored gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.

Within only a couple of seasons, the lagoon was nearly devoid of whales.

The lagoon was used in 1937 and 1938 as a halfway station between Hawai ' i and American Samoa by Pan American Airways flying boats ( Sikorsky S-42B ).

In 1935 it was decided that the lagoon at Kingman Reef was suitable for overnight stops en route from the U. S to New Zealand via Samoa.

Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda lies at the narrow mouth of Curonian Lagoon, a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad and separated from the Baltic sea by Curonian Spit, where Kuršių Nerija National Park was established for its remarkable sand dunes.

The city was rediscovered in 2001 buried in an ancient lagoon.

Following World War II, much of the Naval Air Station there was demolished, with some of the materials piled up and burned on the atoll, dumped into the lagoon, or in the case of unexploded ordnance on some of the islets, left in place.

Six years later, a partially buried corroded chest was found in a lagoon at Palmyra, containing Eleanor Graham's remains.

" Their intent was to stop the gradual migration of the Po toward the lagoon of Venice, which would have filled up with sediment had contact been made.

The site was farther from the sea than it is today, and it is possible that Skara Brae was built adjacent to a freshwater lagoon protected by dunes.

For each test a Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a single mock re-entry vehicle targeted for Kwajalein lagoon more than away.

Odor was considered the big problem in waste disposal and to address it, sewage could be drained to a lagoon, or " settled " and the solids removed, to be disposed of separately.

Crawford established a farm on the peninsula, which at the time was known as Watt's Peninsula, and drained a large lagoon known as Burnham Water.

He established a farm on the peninsula, which at the time was known as Watt's Peninsula, and drained a large lagoon known to early European settlers as Burnham Water.

On Guam, it was most abundant in the Talofofo River valley, on Tinian on Lake Hagoi and Lake Makpo ( now Makpo Swamp ) before it was drained, and on Saipan on the Garpan lagoon and on and around Lake Susupe.

Its area is 53 km², a great part of which is drained fields from the Antela lagoon.

In 1879 Batman lagoon was drained and filled to make way for the North Melbourne railway yards at its northern end.

Zetland originally featured a lagoon and swamp which was drained in the early 1900s to create the Victoria Park racecourse.

The Submarine lagoon drained of water while Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage | Finding Nemo was under construction.

But in 2005, the lagoon was drained and construction began on a new attraction: Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.

In 2004, ten years after closure, the water was drained and the lagoon area was paved over to create new land for Fantasyland.

Claudian describes the ancient city as extending to a considerable length towards the promontory or headland, the projection of which sheltered its port: the latter affords good anchorage for large vessels ; but besides this, which is only a well-sheltered road-stead, there is adjoining the city a large salt-water lake, or lagoon, called the Stagno di Cagliari, communicating by a narrow channel with the bay, which appears from Claudian to have been used in ancient times as an inner harbor or basin.

Ancient windmills and salt pans were used for evaporation, salt grinding and refinement, and to maintain the condition of the lagoon and island itself.

The Canal des Pangalanes ( Lakandranon ' Ampalangalana ), an-long lagoon formed naturally by the washing of sand up on the island by the Indian Ocean currents and by the silting of rivers, is a feature of the coast ; it has been used both as a means of transportation up and down the coast and as a fishing area.

During the 1950s Aitutaki's lagoon was used as a stopover for TEAL ( Tasman Empire Airways Limited ) flying boats on the famous Coral Route.

When used within the context of a distinctive portion of coral reef ecosystems, the term " lagoon " is synonymous with the term " back reef " or " backreef ", which is more commonly used by coral reef scientists to refer to the same area.

In Latin America often the use of “ laguna ”, which lagoon translates to, is used to describe a lake, such as Laguna Catemaco.

" He also found that the wood had decayed a little, to the extent that the filter plates in the pores between the wood's component tracheids had rotted away, perhaps while the wood was stored in or under water in the Venice lagoon before Stradivarius used it.

A swine CAFO is made up of three parts: the hog house, the “ lagoon ,” and the “ spray field .” Waste disposal techniques used by small-scale traditional hog farms, like using waste as fertilizer for commercially viable crops, were adopted and expanded for use by CAFOs.

* Anaerobic lagoon, used to dispose of animal waste, particularly that of cows and pigs

The lagoon is popular, and regularly used, for water sports – such as kayaking or wind-surfing.

The Japanese had established a radio and weather station on Ulithi and had used the lagoon as an anchorage occasionally early in the war, but had abandoned it by 1944.

A number of the larger islands were used as recreational facilities and used as bases to support naval vessels and facilities within the lagoon.

This pass is manmade and was created in the mid 1950s, it is very narrow and shallow compared to the other natural passes in the lagoon and is only used by small boats.

The sunken vessel Prinz Eugen, used during the Bikini Atoll atomic weapons tests, is located here along the islet's northern lagoon side.

But at the same time, the Spanish began to hear stories of El Dorado from captured Indians, and of the rites which used to take place at the lagoon of Guatavita.

The lagoon was used for boating in summer and ice skating in winter.

A section of the moat that used form part of Hilsea lagoon

The dome of the Palace of Fine Arts just outside the Exploratorium and the adjacent lagoon have often been used as backdrops.

A salt-water lagoon on the island was used as a temporary home to a dugong called Pig.

Completed in 1881, The Rocks closed the former New Inlet, once used by Confederate blockade-runners to avoid the U. S. Navy, and created a lagoon, now called " The Basin ".

The original lagoon was used to harvest ice in winter ; Bamberger had it enlarged to by clearing some swampland.