According to this article --

[kinzel]

According to
this article a federal judge has declared that the "navigable waters" statutes are ... wrong and that there is no right for the average person to go boating on a river without the permission of the property owners... ... and so I say, does anyone out here know if this is true? Has snopes got this yet?

Sigh.

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[kimuro.livejournal.com]

ozarque had a very detailed discussion of water navigation rights in her live journal a month or so back. Try Personal note; creeks and rivers and their banks.... (http://ozarque.livejournal.com/287139.html) (7/24).

[deb-krol.livejournal.com]

don't know about the Mississippi, but here in Arizona, the state exercises jurisidiction over any navigable waterway--by state ordinance. [even formerly navigable waters that are no longer navigable due to dams, overuse etc.--like the Salt River bed! Hence the creation of the Salt River Navy Band--you hadda be there]

Landowners only have jurisdiction over the beach.

We just had a case where one of our tribes was in the final phases of putting land into trust--and some of the land straddles the Verde River, which the state says is under its jurisdiction even though nobody has attempted to take a boat upstream since they put in two dams!! Silly bureaucrats.

Cheers,
deb