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However, because authority under the Act is limited to protecting only navigable waters, jurisdiction over these smaller creeks is not absolute and may require just compensation to property owners when invoked to protect downstream waters. Finally, a water-body is presumed non-navigable with the burden of proof on the party claiming it is ...
The Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, commonly referred to as the UN Watercourses Convention, is an international treaty, adopted by the United Nations on 21 May 1997, pertaining to the uses and conservation of all waters that cross international boundaries, including both surface and groundwater.
In determining the contours of riparian rights, there is a clear distinction between navigable (public) waters and non-navigable waters. The land below navigable waters is the property of state, [5] and subject to all the public land laws and in most states public trust rights. Navigable waters are treated as public highways with any exclusive ...
Wetlands adjacent to waters identified in paragraphs (1)-(6). Based on paragraph 3, above, the Migratory Bird Rule (51 FR 41217) asserted in 1986 that the power of the Federal Government, under the Clean Water Act, could be extended to isolated, intrastate, non-navigable waters based on the following factors being present: [1]
Still unresolved at this point is the sticky question of how to define which rivers and streams in Georgia are navigable and, thus, open to fishing, and which are off limits.
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law regulating water pollution in the United States. The language of the Clean Water Act describes itself as pertaining to "Waters of the United States". The act defines these waters as "navigable waterways", which connects the act to constitutional authority to regulate
Aug. 12—The New Mexico Game Commission on Thursday rejected five landowner applications to certify waterway segments on private property as non-navigable, a decision that has, at least for now ...
Submerged Lands Act; Long title: An Act to confirm and establish the titles of the States to lands beneath navigable waters within State boundaries and to the natural resources within such lands and waters, to provide for the use and control of said lands and resources, and to confirm the jurisdiction and control of the United States over the natural resources of the seabed of the Continental ...