W. Lamar Evers, PSM, is a Professional Land Surveyor registered in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi (Retired), and North Carolina (Retired). Formerly employed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of State Lands, Bureau of Survey and Mapping as the Mean High Water Program Manager and the LABINS Program Manager. His responsibilities

included the dissemination of tidal data, establishing procedures for the determination of the mean high-water line, issuance of Notices of Filing for mean high water surveys, maintaining the Mean High-Water Repository, maintaining the database for Certified Corner Records, and oversight of retracement surveys under Chapter 177, Part III, Florida Statutes.

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Lamar has conducted mean high-water line surveys and studies in Florida and Mississippi and has served as the Task Manager for the retracement of the Guide Meridian and portions of the Basis of Parallel, both being established in 1825 & 1826. In addition, he has reviewed over 4,000 mean high-water surveys and approximately 60 mean high-water studies by various surveyors around the state.