Volume 69 · 299
Public Law 84–152
To declare a certain portion of the waterway at Greenwich, Connecticut (in which is located the Greenwich Harbor), a nonnavigable stream.
Approved July 12, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To declare a certain portion of the waterway at Greenwich, Connecticut (in which is located the Greenwich Harbor), a nonnavigable stream.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the portion of the waterway in which is located the Greenwich Harbor in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, lying north of a line extending south 84 degrees 00 minutes and 36 seconds east from a point (365 feet from the northwest comer of the existing Greenwich Harbor bulkhead and pier line) whose coordinates in the Corps of Engineers’ Harbor Line System are north 6,244.55 and west 377.41 is hereby declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Sec. 2.
The line hereinbefore described shall be established as a combined pierhead and bulkhead line of the Greenwich Harbor.
Sec. 3.
Any project heretofore authorized by any Act of Congress, insofar as such project relates to the above-described portion of the Greenwich Harbor, is hereby abandoned.
Sec. 4.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. This Act shall become effective when the State Highway Department of Connecticut has completed the dredging to a depth of six feet of a compensating anchorage area of nine-tenths of an acre, to the satisfaction of the Division Engineer of the Corps of Engineers in charge of the locality.
Approved July 12, 1955.