Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§671 Petition for common dumping ground, etc.
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 14— - CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION › § 671
Summary
Owners of mining claims that need a shared dumping ground, dam, or other debris-control works may file a joint petition and must include the facts required by section 669. If other mines (including hydraulic mines) use common dumps below an applicant’s mine and the applicant cannot use them, the petition must say so. The same legal procedures then apply.
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Title 33, §671
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The owners of several mining claims situated so as to require a common dumping ground or dam or other restraining works for the debris issuing therefrom in one or more sites may file a joint petition setting forth such facts in addition to the requirements of section 669 of this title; and where the owner of a hydraulic mine or owners of several such mines have and use common dumping sites for impounding debris or as settling reservoirs, which sites are located below the mine of an applicant not entitled to use same, such fact shall also be stated in said petition. Thereupon the same proceedings shall be had as provided for herein.
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Herein, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1893, which comprises this chapter.
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33 U.S.C. § 671
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73