33 U.S.C. § 28 — Crum River; old channel at mouth, Delaware Bay

This is one undivided provision with one condition attached. The Crum River's mouth, where it empties into the Delaware River, was changed, diverted, and straightened under authority given to Alba B. Johnson, Samuel M. Vauclain, and the Baldwin Locomotive Works by an Act of Congress approved July 27, 1916. Once that change happens, the straightened Crum River becomes a public navigable stream. The old course and channel — as it existed on July 27, 1916, running from the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company's right-of-way to the low-water line in the Delaware River — is abandoned and vacated (legally given up). This happens once the new channel is completed to specific measurements: a depth of four feet at mean low water, a bottom width of 62 feet, and a width of 100 feet at the mean low-water level. There is one condition (a proviso): the government must keep enough right, title, and interest in the bed of the new channel to assure the public a permanent (perpetual) right to use that channel for navigation and commerce.