Actually- the lake is the 2nd largest salt-water lake in the country.
Get out?!? Really?
If so, I stand corrected.
aha, I see now, you "Wikipediaed" me. :-)
And not that I doubt Wikipedia - which can be edited by anyone IIRC, but every other 'reliable' reference I can find only states the water is "brackish". And thus far I can't find data on its salinity content. But one thing I found on the USGS website is interesting - the Lake is polluted as 'heck'. No swimming, no fishing, etc.
The way it reads, is that it seems worse than the 'old' Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was, which actually caught on fire, or the Chicago River in the 'old days' which in some parts would bubble up goop (Bubbly Creek).