Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§59a Back Cove, Portland, Maine
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME › § 59a
Summary
Makes the part of Back Cove in Portland, Maine that lies south of a line across the twelve‑foot federal project channel 2,500 feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, up to the head of Back Cove, not navigable under U.S. law. That same stretch of the twelve‑foot channel, about 3,500 feet long, is abandoned. Congress may change or repeal this.
Full Legal Text
Title 33, §59a
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)That portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying southerly of a line across the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
(b)That portion of the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove lying southerly of a line across the channel twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, a distance of approximately thirty-five hundred feet, is abandoned.
(c)The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 59a
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73