Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME › § 59i
Congress declares that a specific part of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River in Baltimore is not a navigable U.S. waterway and allows all or any part of that area to be filled. The area is generally south of Pratt Street, east of Light Street, and north of Key Highway. More exactly, it is the part west of lines that start where the south side of Pratt Street meets the west side of Pier 3; then along the west side of Pier 3 south 04 degrees 19 minutes 47 seconds east 726.59 feet to the southwest corner of Pier 3; then across the river south 23 degrees 01 minutes 15 seconds west 855.36 feet to the pierhead and bulkhead line at the east side of Battery Avenue (this is the end of the first line of the fourth parcel conveyed by J. and F. Realty, Incorporated to Allegheny Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company by deed dated December 22, 1965, recorded Liber J. F. C. 2006 folio 345; the pierhead and bulkhead station LIV has Lambert grid coordinates east 2,111,161.40, north 527,709.27); then along the east side of Battery Avenue south 03 degrees 09 minutes 07 seconds east 568 feet, more or less, to the north side of Key Highway.
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33 U.S.C. § 59i
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
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