Sentence examples for mean high water from inspiring English sources
The main span, 4,200 feet (1,280 metres) long, is suspended from two cables hung from towers 746 feet (227 metres) high; at midpoint the roadway is 265 feet (81 metres) above mean high water.
While polder elevation remains above mean sea level, tidal channels located outside the embankments are aggrading to approximately mean high water, making it difficult to keep conduits and connecting channels deep enough to drain the polder [20, 22].
The lift span, when in high, or open, is 135 ft. over mean high water.
The roadway is 20 feet (6.1 metres) wide and reaches a maximum depth below mean high water of 93 feet 5 inches (28.5 metres).
While Thimbles homeowners are naturally protective of their privacy, and stopping uninvited on an inhabited island would be very bad form, some island stops are not illegal — anything below the mean high water line is public property in Connecticut.
Out of the 4 piers holding the spans, one was built on dry land, others built with caissons, at the Bethlehem shipyards, Hoboken, floated into place and sunk 80 ft. below mean high water.
Being part of the county would mean higher water bills, and more red tape, residents said.
In the village of Shishmaref, on the Chukchi Sea just south of the Arctic Circle, it means high water eating away so many houses and buildings that people will vote next month on moving the entire village inland.
Vollmond means full moon – which also means high water – and the back half of designer Peter Pabst's stage is a pool across which performers gambol or doggie-paddle, the women wetting their long hair to swing wide arcs of glittering spray, their bright silk frocks stuck to them like clingfilm.
Whereas winter meant high-water root vegetables, spring brings cruciferous vegetables like Swiss chard, kale, broccoli, bok choy, and cabbage that support your liver and gallbladder.
To account for the tidal effects on tsunami impact and vulnerability we simulate the waves' propagation for three static tide stages: mean lower low water (MLLW), mean sea level (MSL), and mean higher high water (MHHW).
