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[CITE: 33USC59]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                  CHAPTER 1--NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
 
       SUBCHAPTER II--WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME
 
Sec. 59. West River in West Haven, Connecticut

    The portion of the waterway in which is located the West River in 
the town of West Haven, Connecticut, and the city of New Haven, 
Connecticut, lying northerly of a line extending north 85 degrees 54 
minutes 43.5 seconds east, from a point (1,158.535 feet from the most 
westerly corner of the existing bulkhead and pier line) whose 
coordinates in the Corps of Engineers Harbor Line System are north 
4,616.76 and west 9,450.80, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of 
the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the 
United States.
    The line hereinbefore described shall be established as a combined 
pierhead and bulkhead line of the West River.
    Any project heretofore authorized by an Act of Congress, insofar as 
such project relates to the above-described portion of the West River, 
is hereby abandoned.
    The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly 
reserved.

(Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 649, 69 Stat. 576.)
