§ 17.04.348. Ordinary high water mark.  


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  • "Ordinary high water mark" means the line that water impresses on land by covering it for sufficient periods to cause physical characteristics that distinguish the area below the line from the area above it. Characteristics of the area below the line include, when appropriate, but are not limited to, deprivation of the soil of substantially all terrestrial vegetation and destruction of its agricultural vegetative value. A floodplain adjacent to surface waters is not considered to lie within the surface water's high-water marks.

    (Ord. 05-4 § 3, 2005)

(Ord. No. 10-12, § 6, 1-19-2011)