He held that Maryland's border ran to the low-water mark on the southern bank of the river.
But this is the low-water mark of the year.
This means that the landward boundary between shoreface and beach is the line of the average low-water mark.
That's why his mind isn't at the low-water mark.
Ohio has only that portion of the river between the river's 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark.
Instead of ending the practice he tried to end the investigation that had uncovered it, Fitzgerald said, calling the moment "a low-water mark for public service."
Perhaps these early debates will prove to be the low-water mark of this year's campaign.
His pitch to the conservative right is a low-water mark in landmarking.
Washington Airport claimed it had title down to the low-water mark.
Faith was at the low-water mark of her analysis, four years in.