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  Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is navigable as far as Baghdad by shallow-draft vessels, but rafts are required for transport upstream to Mosul.
River trade declined in importance during the 20th century as the Basra-Baghdad-Mosul railway and roads took over much of the freight traffic.
The river is heavily dammed in both Iraq and Turkey, in order to provide water for irrigating the arid and semi-desert regions bordering the river valley.
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 Credit river Portage Ruling
If the river is navigable, then this Act provides that the Reeds have no proprietary interest in the riverbed since the grants did not expressly grant the riverbed to their predecessors.
The concept of navigability is premised on the notion that certain waterways are akin to public highways and are viewed as being within the public domain: Rainy River Navigation Co. v.
Their argument amounts to a contention that the public right of navigation carries with it a right to enter upon private property to avoid obstructions to navigation even where the obstruction is not unlawful, and is not the responsibility of the property owner whose land will be entered and crossed.
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 navigablerivers
Based on historical documentation, the main stem of the Flathead River is commercially navigable from the confluence of its north and middle forks to its confluence with the Clark Fork River.
Based on historical documentation, the Jefferson River is commercially navigable from its confluence of the Beaverhead and Ruby Rivers to the Jefferson's confluence with the Missouri River.
Based on historical documentation, the Sun River is commercially navigable from the confluence of the north and south forks of the Sun River to its confluence with the Missouri River.
www.dnrc.state.mt.us /navigablerivers.htm   (2821 words)

  
 River Law: Who owns the rivers? River navigability law, for river access, river rights, river conservation, canoeing, ...
For example, a farmer or rancher may erect a fence across a river and expect boaters coming down the river to terminate their trip at that point and leave the river, even though the river is every bit as navigable downstream from the fence as it is upstream.
Conversely, many people mistakenly believe that unless a river is navigable for title purposes, there is no public right to visit it, where in fact the state may confer a floatage easement on all rivers, regardless of their navigability for title purposes.
But rivers that are navigable for title purposes are public land up to the ordinary high water line, so that even when the river runs dry, people still have the right to walk along the bed of the river.
www.nationalrivers.org /us-law-who-owns.htm   (7090 words)

  
 Navigable Rivers and Public Access   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Federal Supreme Court said that states held ownership of navigable river beds and that all new states would enter the Union under ñequal footingî and would own the lands beneath the navigable streams, lakes, islands and accumulations of land formed in the beds of navigable streams up to the average water flow line.
West Boulder River of the Yellowstone River 7.
Bull River of the Clark Fork River 8.
www.montanariveraction.org /navigable-rivers.html   (543 words)

  
 Navigable river Definition / Navigable river Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It usually refers to a river which has a certain status, requiring bridges over it to be a certain height or have movable sections, and may be regularly dredged A dredge is a small waterborne craft used to remove sediment from the bottoms of rivers and harbors.
navigable river is the river Temo of which the ultimate 6 km before letting out at Bosa allow for navigation.
navigable river is the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
www.elresearch.com /Navigable_river   (171 words)

  
 MEKONG - LoveToKnow Article on MEKONG
It is the third 0 fourth longest river in Asia and the seventh or eighth in th world.
Under the provisions of the Anglo-French agreement of January 1896, from the Chinese frontier southwards to the mouth of the Nam Hok the Mekong forms the frontier between the British Shan States on the west and the territories acquired from Siam by France in 1893.
This 25 kilometre neutral zone was abolished in 1905 when France surrendered Chantabun to the Siamese, who in their turn ceded the port of Krat and the provinces of Melupre and Bassac, together with various trading concessions to France on the right bank of the Mekong.
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Big Tarkio River, Missouri -STATUTE- The Big Tarkio River, in the counties of Holt and Atchison, in the State of Missouri, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws enacted by Congress for the preservation and protection of such waters.
East River, Wisconsin -STATUTE- All of that portion of the East River, in the county of Brown, State of Wisconsin, extending from Baird Street, in the city of Green Bay, east and south is declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America.
Nodaway River, Missouri -STATUTE- Nodaway River, in the counties of Andrew, Holt, and Nodaway, in the State of Missouri, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws enacted by Congress for the preservation and protection of such waters.
uscode.house.gov /download/pls/33C1.txt   (8683 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Arkansas, river, United States, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
The John Martin dam and reservoir in Colorado is one of the largest water-storage and flood-control units in the river basin.
In 1806, Zebulon Pike, an American army officer, explored the river's upper reaches in Colorado.
The Arkansas River was an important trade and travel route in the 19th cent.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/ArkansRiv.html   (324 words)

  
 Wailua River
Wailua River is a long, slowly meadering river that starts at the Wai'ale'ale Crater and is fed by several tributaries on the way to the ocean.
At the mouth of the river are several large stones with ancient petroglyphs carvings on them.
The mouth of the river enters the ocean at Wailua Bay near the town of Wailua on Highway 56.
www.hawaiiweb.com /kauai/html/sites/wailua_river.html   (275 words)

  
 Waterways in France (part 3)
Oise River • Rhine Canals • Rhine River • Rhône River • Saône River • Seine River
Navigable for most of its length, the Oise is an important transportation route; canals link it with the Aisne, Sambre, and Thérain rivers.
T he Rhine was declared free to international navigation in 1868, and in 1919 navigation of the river between Basel and Krimpen, on the Lek, and Gorinchem, on the Waal, was placed under the authority of the Central Rhine Commission, with headquarters at Strasbourg (Alsace).
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Waterways/DF_waterways3.shtml   (1284 words)

  
 Navigable river - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A navigable river is a river which can be navigated by ships.
It usually refers to a river which has a certain status, requiring bridges over it to be a certain height or have movable sections, and may be regularly dredged to maintain a certain depth.
This article related to water-transport is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Navigable_river   (80 words)

  
 National Rivers: California River Law, on river conservation, river access, paddling, canoeing, kayaking, rafting, ...
Rivers cannot be closed or partially closed to appease adjacent landowners, or to appease people who want to dedicate the river to fishing only, or to make life easier for local law enforcement agencies.
But rivers that are navigable for title purposes are public land up to the ordinary high water mark, so that even when the river runs dry, people still have the right to walk along the bed of the river.
The National Rivers Website and the Rivers of California section are made possible by the generosity of the members of the National Organization for Rivers (NORS.) To start or extend your membership, go to NORS Memberships.
www.adventuresports.com /river/nors/states/ca-law.htm   (1486 words)

  
 State navigable-river bill faces criticism over access rights - May 17, 2005
The board, which also includes the governor and secretary of state, is charged with determining public ownership of the beds and banks of the state’s rivers — those that have a history of commercial navigation.
To date only 11 rivers have been declared "navigable" under the doctrine of public use granted the state when it entered the union.
Edwards warned critics that if a river is declared navigable, the state assumes ownership of the beds and banks.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0517/local/stories/11local.htm   (696 words)

  
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All the navigable rivers and waters in the former Territories of Orleans and Louisiana shall be and forever remain public highways.
The Big Tarkio River, in the counties of Holt and Atchison, in the State of Missouri, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the...
Nodaway River, in the counties of Andrew, Holt, and Nodaway, in the State of Missouri, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the...
www.peo7.com /UsStateCode/78080_LawFiles.Htm   (9560 words)

  
 John Constable - A Scene On A Navigable River
The title of one of the pictures which Constable sent to the Royal Academy in 1817 was A Scene on a Navigable River.
In all probability this was the landscape called Flatford Mill, on the River Stour, now in the National Gallery, No. 1273, which is signed and dated " Jno.
It was also his practice, when a picture was returned on his hands unsold from the exhibition, to paint upon it again from time to time, with the idea of improving it, so that the date finally placed upon it does not always indicate the year in which the work was first begun.
www.oldandsold.com /articles29/constable-4.shtml   (139 words)

  
 Sir VValter Roberts his Ansvver to Mr. Fords book, entituled, A designe for bringing a navigable river, from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire, to St. Giles in the Fields Early works to 1800.
A plan to improve navigation on the river Lea, from Stanstead, Essex, to London.
Sir Edward Ford's "A designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth..", published in 1641, concerned canal building adjacent to the river Colne (cf.
js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/AJR-2974   (270 words)

  
 Any person or persons, corporations, municipal or private, who desire to improve any navigable river, or any part ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Any person or persons, corporations, municipal or private, who desire to improve any navigable river, or any part thereof, at their or its own expense and risk may do so upon the approval of the plans and specifications of said proposed improvement by the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Engineers of the Army.
The plan of said improvement must conform with the general plan of the Government improvements, must not impede navigation, and no toll shall be imposed on account thereof, and said improvement shall at all times be under the control and supervision of the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Engineers.
River and harbor improvement by private or municipal enterprise
www.peo7.com /UsStateCode/PEOusLabor_Section26913.htm   (240 words)

  
 Tanana on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
(tăn´enô), river, 600 mi (966 km) long, rising in W Yukon Territory near the Alaskan border and flowing NW across Alaska to the Yukon River; navigable for small boats to Fairbanks, the largest city on the river.
The Tanana, explored by Russian traders c.1860, became an important route to the Yukon goldfields in 1898.
A section of the Alaska Highway runs parallel to the river.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tanana.asp   (332 words)

  
 Fall River
92,703), Bristol co., SE Mass., a port of entry on Mt. Hope Bay, at the mouth of the Taunton River; settled 1656, set off from Freetown 1803, inc. as a city 1854.
It was once the foremost cotton textile center in the United States; the first cotton mill was built in 1811.
The Bradford Durfee College of Technology is in Fall River.
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 The First Campbells on Jamaica - The Blackheath Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
We find that Colonel John of Black River was a soldier-uncle, in the normal sense of the word uncle, of one Principal Neil Campbell of the College of Glasgow.
The Black River is 44 miles long, and the longest, most important river, navigable by boat for 25 miles from its mouth.
Black River, Jamaica, was a rendezvous for Darien ships to and from Scotland, and later it became a generally-used rendezvous for British naval shipping about Jamaica.
www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/jamaica.htm   (17730 words)

  
 Brazil nut --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
Brazil nuts are high in fat and protein and taste somewhat like almond or coconut.
The tree grows wild in stands in the Amazon River basin, reaching heights of 150 ft (45 m) or more.
The navigable river flows for about 200 miles (320 km) northeast through rain forests, forming...
www.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=383270   (686 words)

  
 Indiana Navigable River page. All Public access points for All canoing rivers in Indiana
Click here to read about laws concerning river use (from the definitive source!)
Click here for a listing of the current streamflow conditions for all these rivers
(though you'll also find a link to each river's specific current conditions on each of the river destination pages)
www.indianaoutfitters.com /rivers.html   (70 words)

  
 Arkansas Waterways Commission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Arkansas enjoys one of the largest inventories of navigable waterways in the nation with 1000 miles along five rivers.
A navigable river is within 65 miles of every county in the state.
If you have comments or questions regarding this page contact technical support waterways@dina.org Last Modified Tuesday, July 8, 2003.
www.waterways.dina.org /waterways.html   (51 words)

  
 Harlem
Harlem, residential and business section of upper Manhattan, New York City, bounded roughly by 110th St., the East River and Harlem River, 168th St., Amsterdam Ave., and Morningside Park.
Or Does It Explode: Black Harlem in the Thirties
Harlem River - Harlem River, navigable tidal channel, 8 mi (12.9 km) long with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in New York...
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