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1 MR. MITTERMILLER: It's a moving target. At
2 this point in time, I believe the calculation was
3 correct.
4 MR. BIERIG: Thank you.
5 Commissioner Phillips, did you have a
6 question?
7 MR. PHILLIPS: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair.
8 If it's a 18-year study -- did you say
9 18 years?
10 MR. MITTERMILLER: Yes, 18.6. Correct.
11 MR. PHILLIPS: -- why would Penfield & Smith
12 take a moment in time and use that? That would be --
13 it's counterintuitive. It's an average we're looking
14 at, not a moment in February.
15 MR. MITTERMILLER: That average is the
16 elevation. The moment in time is the sand moving back
17 and forth. They just -- the photo was taken at that
18 time. It wasn't Penfield & Smith. It was the prior
19 surveyor probably back in the Schrager -- I'm not sure
20 when -- who did it. They took an aerial photo, did some
21 photometric stuff, got the contours.
22 MR. PHILLIPS: But that's not controlling the
23 photo. The photo was not meant to identify mean high
24 tide. It's --
25 MR. MITTERMILLER: No. But they can get the
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