Jack Shellac
Lieutenant Commander
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2002
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- 1,661
Re: Is there ever a potential that someone can own water?
Around here, you own waterfront property on navigable salt water to the mean high tide line. You have contol of the underwater property for 1000' out, but you cannot own it. This is to keep someone from buying a small piece of property and then going out a hundred feet or so and building a huge pier. The Corps of Engineers used to have an unwritten agenda that would eventually make it illegal for any individual to own waterfront property, but hopefully, they have abandoned it by now.
Around here, you own waterfront property on navigable salt water to the mean high tide line. You have contol of the underwater property for 1000' out, but you cannot own it. This is to keep someone from buying a small piece of property and then going out a hundred feet or so and building a huge pier. The Corps of Engineers used to have an unwritten agenda that would eventually make it illegal for any individual to own waterfront property, but hopefully, they have abandoned it by now.