Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102

§59f Boston Inner Harbor and Fort Point Channel, Massachusetts

Title 33 › CHAPTER 1 — NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER II — WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME › § 59f

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

A part of Boston Inner Harbor and Fort Point Channel in Suffolk County, Massachusetts is not a navigable water of the United States under federal law. The area is everything inside a border that begins where the northeast edge of Northern Avenue meets the Fort Point Channel United States Pierhead Line; runs along Northern Avenue to Atlantic Avenue; follows Atlantic Avenue and Commercial Street to Hanover Street; goes to the southwest property line of the U.S. Coast Guard Base and along the base’s southwest and southeast property lines out to the Pierhead Line; and then follows the Pierhead Line back to the starting point.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §59f

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

That portion of Boston Inner Harbor and Fort Point Channel in Suffolk County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, lying within the following described area is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws of the United States: Beginning at the intersection of the northeasterly sideline of Northern Avenue and the westerly United States Pierhead Line of the Fort Point Channel and running northwesterly by the northwesterly sideline of Northern Avenue to the westerly sideline of Atlantic Avenue: thence turning and running northerly and northwesterly by the westerly sideline of Atlantic Avenue and of Commercial Street to the southeasterly sideline of Hanover Street; thence turning and running northeasterly by the southeasterly sideline of Hanover Street to the southwesterly property line of the United States Coast Guard Base; thence turning and running southeasterly by the southwesterly property line of the United States Coast Guard Base to the southeasterly property line of the United States Coast Guard Base; thence turning and running northeasterly by the southeasterly property line of the United States Coast Guard Base extended to the United States Pierhead Line; thence turning and running southeasterly, southerly and southwesterly by the United States Pierhead Line, to the point of beginning.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 59f

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102