Mean high water mark definition
Mean high water mark means, for coastal waters having six inches or more lunar tidal influence, the average height of the high water over a 19 year period as may be ascertained from National Ocean Survey or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tide stations data or as otherwise determined under the provisions of the Coastal Area Management Act.
Mean high water mark. – means the level of mean high water spring tides;
Mean high water mark means the line that water impresses on the land for sufficient periods to cause physical characteristics that distinguish the area below the line from above it. Characteristics of the area below the line include, when appropriate, deprivation of the soil of substantially all terrestrial vegetation and destruction of its agricultural value.
More Definitions of Mean high water mark
Mean high water mark means the line of medium high tide between the spring and neap tides;
Mean high water mark or normal high-water mark, means, for coastal waters having six inches or
Mean high water mark means the line of mean high tide between the ordinary high-water spring and ordinary high-water neap tides.
Mean high water mark or “MHW” means the arithmetic average of high-water heights observed over an 18.6-year Metonic cycle. It is the line that is formed by the intersection of the tidal plane of mean high tide with the shore.
Mean high water mark means, for coastal waters having six inches or more lunar tidal influence,
Mean high water mark means, for coastal
Mean high water mark means the average level of the ocean's high tide for a particular area of shoreline or Reef.