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Riparian water rights exist in many jurisdictions with a common law heritage, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and states in the eastern United States. [1] Common land ownership can be organized into a partition unit, a corporation consisting of the landowners on the shore that formally owns the water area and determines its use. [2]
As is often the case in the United States, the "law of great ponds" descended from early English common law.In 1890, Charles Doe, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, described the development of the law of great ponds in Concord Mfg. Co. v. Robertson, a case concerning the rights of individuals to cut and remove ice from a pond adjacent to land they had leased, subsequently ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Michigan. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Menominee, the county seat, is 46 miles (74 km) to the south via US 2 and US 41. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hermansville CDP has a total area of 1.41 square miles (3.7 km 2), of which 1.27 square miles (3.3 km 2) are land and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km 2), or 9.72%, are water. [1]
Parts of the waterway are variously known as the Keweenaw Waterway, Portage Canal, Portage Lake Canal, Portage River, Lily Pond, Torch Lake, and Portage Lake. The waterway connects to Lake Superior at its north and south entries (upper and lower portage entry lighthouses), with sections known as Portage Lake and Torch Lake in between.
Five college students are wondering where they will live next after their landlords were denied a special-use permit allowing the young women to continue occupying a three-bedroom single-family ...
A bride and groom can't agree on the size of their wedding — so they've decided to each plan their own event. In a post on Reddit's "Wedding Shaming" forum, a user shared that their sister-in ...
Tyler, 33, threw Rickey’s pet alligator and Rickey, 30, launched Tyler’s crocodile from their Wasilla apartment, Alaska News Source reports. It is not clear what anime kicked off the dispute.