Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§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
Summary
Says a specific 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 the section bounded by Northern Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Commercial Street, Hanover Street, the U.S. Coast Guard Base property lines, and the U.S. Pierhead Line.
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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33 U.S.C. § 59f
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60