Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110
§59a Back Cove, Portland, Maine
Title 33 › CHAPTER 1 — NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER II — WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME › § 59a
Summary
Designates a stretch of Back Cove in Portland, Maine—south of a line across the 12-foot federal channel 2,500 feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge to the cove’s head—as nonnavigable and abandons that roughly 3,500-foot channel. The government may change or repeal this.
Full Legal Text
Title 33, §59a
Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Portion declared nonnavigable
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)Portion abandoned
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)Preservation of right to alter, amend or repeal section
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
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110