33 U.S.C. § 59 — West River in West Haven, Connecticut

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This law declares part of the West River in West Haven and New Haven, Connecticut, to be nonnavigable. The described line becomes the river's official pierhead and bulkhead line. Any earlier Congress-authorized project for that river section is abandoned, and Congress can still change this law later.

This section declares part of a Connecticut river nonnavigable and sets a new boundary line for it. The portion of the West River lying north of a specific surveyed line, described by exact coordinates in the Corps of Engineers Harbor Line System, in the town of West Haven and the city of New Haven, Connecticut, is declared a nonnavigable water of the United States under the Constitution and federal law. That same described line also becomes the river's official combined pierhead and bulkhead line, the boundary marking where structures like piers and bulkheads may be built. Any project that Congress had earlier authorized for that part of the West River is abandoned by this section, to the extent the project relates to that portion of the river. Congress expressly keeps the right to alter, amend, or repeal this section later.

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The portion of the waterway in which is located the West River in the town of West Haven, Connecticut, and the city of New Haven, Connecticut, lying northerly of a line extending north 85 degrees 54 minutes 43.5 seconds east, from a point (1,158.535 feet from the most westerly corner of the existing bulkhead and pier line) whose coordinates in the Corps of Engineers Harbor Line System are north 4,616.76 and west 9,450.80, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The line hereinbefore described shall be established as a combined pierhead and bulkhead line of the West River.

Any project heretofore authorized by an Act of Congress, insofar as such project relates to the above-described portion of the West River, is hereby abandoned.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

Source credit: (Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 649, 69 Stat. 576.)

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1955Enacted · Act of Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 649 · 69 Stat. 576

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 649 on 1955-08-09.

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