mean low water

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The National Weather Service in Charleston reports that a tide of 8.8 feet above mean low water early Saturday tied the third-highest on record.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2016

According to this we were a good mile from the shore and the only shoal is that one and it's marked six feet at mean low water.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry

The wooden structure was removed to a level 1 ft. below mean low water and on it a concrete footing approximately 2 ft. thick was constructed for the prism proper.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

The chart shows three feet near shore at mean low water.

From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

It rises one hundred and ten feet above its immediate base, or about one hundred and twenty-three feet above mean low water.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various