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My understanding of mean high tide in California is the law does not specify a time frame for the mean. So how do you actually know where the MHTL is?
by cbordeleau 13y ago
My understanding of mean high tide in California is the law does not specify a time frame for the mean. So how do you actually know where the MHTL is?
- nobodysfool 13y agoGenerally there's debris left from the high tide - seaweed and what not. It's usually pretty easy to tell.
- cbordeleau 13y agoYes but that would be the mean high tide of perhaps the last week. If a stormed rolled in, by your logic, the whole beach could be public property. Some states define the mean high tide as the mean over a 18.6-year period or Tidal Epoch. To my knowledge, California makes no such distinction.