Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102

§26a Additional Portion of Calumet River, Old Channel, Abandoned as Navigable Water

Title 33 › CHAPTER 1 — NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER II — WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME › § 26a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The old Calumet River channel in sections 18 and 19, township 37 north, range 15 east, third principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, that lies outside the new channel lines shown on the map in section 26 and outside the turning basin limits in those sections will no longer be a navigable water of the United States. That change takes effect when the United States acquires the land needed to build the turning basin at a site between 113th Street and 117th Street in Chicago, as approved by the Chief of Engineers.

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Title 33, §26a

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The portion of the old channel of the Calumet River in sections eighteen and nineteen, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen east, of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, which lies outside of the new channel lines established by the United States and shown on the map referred to in section 26 of this title, and which lies outside of the exterior limits of the turning basin to be established on said Calumet River in said sections, is abandoned as navigable water of the United States from and after the time when the United States shall have secured title to the land necessary for the establishment of the turning basin at some point, to be approved by the Chief of Engineers, between One hundred and thirteenth Street and One hundred and seventeenth Street in the city of Chicago.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 26a

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102