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Murrells Inlet Estuary

Estuaries of South Carolina
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The Murrells Inlet Estuary, located on the northern coast of the U.S. state of South Carolina, is a small, high-salinity, tidally influenced estuary that contains 16.5 miles of tidal creeks. The southern boundary of the estuary is in Georgetown County at Huntington Beach State Park and its northern boundary is located in Horry County at Garden City Beach. Murrells Inlet is a bar built or pocket estuary and stretches approximately 5 miles behind the highly developed barrier beach of the Garden City peninsula and undeveloped portion of Huntington Beach where the beach and salt marsh is more pristine. The estuary is approximately 1.5 miles at its widest point and the western boundary is the Murrells Inlet mainland. The Inlet opens to the Atlantic Ocean at the southern tip of Garden City Beach and prior to jetty construction, sandbars shifted along the opening impeding water flows in and out of the estuary.

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