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@@ -27,11 +27,20 @@ vector ends up parallel to the view direction, so camera roll is undefined and G
 - **Road culling first.** Only the road segments whose bounding box reaches this chunk are kept,
   each tagged with its `RoadTier`. The padding is derived from the widest shoulder any tier has plus
   a margin, so widening a road cannot silently truncate it at chunk edges.
-- **Water per column** (task 13) — the blueprint is the **authority** on where water is; the server
-  only reads it. `WBID` decides presence (it is the water stage's own classification output, the
-  same set the biome grid's Ocean/Lake pixels form by construction), `WSRF` gives the surface level
-  per pixel, and the `WBTB` body table is the fallback when a column is flagged wet but carries the
-  `WSRF` no-water sentinel. A body the table does not know leaves the column **dry** rather than
+- **Water per column** (tasks 13, 15) — the blueprint is the **authority** on where water is and at
+  what level; the server only reads it. `WSRF` gives the surface level per pixel, and the `WBTB`
+  body table is the fallback when a column is flagged wet but carries the `WSRF` no-water sentinel.
+
+  **Presence takes two clauses.** `WBID` (the water stage's own classification output) OR *the
+  rendered ground being under the ocean's surface*. The second exists because `WBID` was classified
+  from the **uncurved** heightmap while the mesh renders the **curved** one. Outside the crater
+  those agree exactly — the curve is identity at sea and monotonic, so `Apply(raw) < sea` iff
+  `raw < sea`. Inside it they do not: the carve lerps two different bases toward one target
+  (classify from `raw`, rendered from `Apply(raw)`, and `Apply(raw) < raw` in the lowland band), so
+  the rendered surface sinks faster and leaves a ring rendering below the waterline that `WBID`
+  still calls dry — 375,824 px on the C1 seed, all of it inside the carve. The second clause tests
+  the height the mesh actually uses against the **ocean body's own level from `WBTB`**, so the
+  runtime still derives nothing, and by the identity above it can only ever fire inside the carve. A body the table does not know leaves the column **dry** rather than
   guessing a level. The level is scaled by the same `HEIGHT_SCALE` as the terrain, so the sheet and
   the seabed cannot drift apart. Depth for shading is taken from **blueprint** heights, not rendered
   geometry — the terrain render clamps its floor at `Y = 2`, which would otherwise flatten every