RIVER & LAKE BOUNDARIES

Surveying Water Boundaries - Second Edition
James A. Simpson, PE & LS

About the Author

Chapter - Subjects

1 Introduction

Management of Riparian Property

Rectangular Survey System and meanders

2 Navigability

Tests for navigability

Navigability reports

3 Patents & Grants

Federal Grants States

Grants Along Nonnavigable Waters

4 Abandoned River Channels

Avulsion

Man-caused avulsions

International boundary river avulsions

Avulsion surveys and resurveys

5 Gradual Changes by water action

Erosion and accretion

What property is riparian

Partitions of Accretion

6 Islands and sandbars

Island surveys under the GLO procedures

The Island Rule

Accretion to islands

Island formed from a river bed

7 Boundary survey problems and disputes

Ordinary high water mark

Adverse possession

Madison Basart lands

8 Tools and Techniques

Map interpretation

Related science applications

Hydrology & Hydraulic application

Courtrooms & Courtroom techniques

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More than 400 pages

A handbook with recommended work procedures and legal aspects of surveying ownership boundaries between uplands and the beds of inland waters.

More than 400 maps and illustrations

Detailed index

An analysis of the facts with explanatory maps involved on over 70 leading cases on water boundaries from the time of Johnston v. Jones, Railroad v. Schurmeir and St. Louis v. Rutz which were heard in the 1800's to the 1900's and to the present. Includes facts and analysis of four modern cases tried in the 1990's.

How to recognize a water boundary problem.

Particularly valuable for meander line problems and ordinary high water mark determination.

Conduct of navigability studies, a how-to-do-it approach.

Avulsion surveys and Accretion thoroughly treated.

Islands and ownership boundaries of island areas.

Famous litigation over water boundaries.

Why rivers move their banks.

How to estimate the date of past river movement.

Quick-reference flow chart as a supplementary study guide.

Tips on Courtroom Testimony.