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mean water level

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mean water level [′mēn ′wȯd·ər ‚lev·əl]
(oceanography)
The average surface level of a body of water.


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The scheme involves building 30 wind turbines, each of them 433 feet above mean water level, in the area of Scarweather Sands, a sandbank west of Porthcawl.
For instance, doubling the amount of water that is diverted from Lake Michigan into the Mississippi River system, says Quinn, would lower the mean water level at Chicago by merely an inch or so after about three years.
The scheme involves building 30 wind turbines, each of them 433ft above mean water level in the area of Scarweather Sands, a sandbank west of Porthcawl.
 
 
 
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