Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§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
Summary
Part of the old Calumet River channel in sections 18 and 19, township 37 north, range 15 east, third principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, that is outside the new channel lines shown on the map and outside the turning-basin limits stops being U.S. navigable water once the United States acquires the land for a turning basin between 113th and 117th Streets in Chicago at a site 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
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60