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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: pontooner on October 06, 2005, 12:44:46 PM

Title: ???high water mark???
Post by: pontooner on October 06, 2005, 12:44:46 PM

Was wondering where the high water mark is on a river. Where the water stands or at highest level of past high flow ???

Title: Re: ???high water mark???
Post by: Nostro on October 06, 2005, 01:23:43 PM

LAND ACT
[RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 245

"natural boundary" means the visible high water mark of any lake, river, stream or other body of water where the presence and action of the water are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark on the soil of the bed of the body of water a character distinct from that of its banks, in vegetation, as well as in the nature of the soil itself;

Note: emphasis added by Nostro