FWIW American Whitewater has compiled state-by-state navigability law summaries - see: http://www.americanwhitewater.org/archive/article/18 Play Hard, Erik Wayne Smith wrote: > The definition of "Navigable" varies from state to state <snip> > So my point is while the law may say one thing, how it is enforced is what you need to know. > > Robert Livingston & Pam Martin wrote: > I am not a lawyer but I thought that the rules about access to navigatable > waters were very strong. > > But I do not know the legal definition of navigatable. > > An acquaintance of ours, many years ago, was prevented from paddling the > part of the Columbia river that passes through the Hanford Reservation. He > brought the case to court and won. They could prevent people landing on the > shore but they could not prevent paddling the 20 mile length or whatever it > was if they stayed off the shore. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 12 2003 - 13:40:00 PDT
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