Bulkhead line

Bulkhead line is an officially set line along a shoreline, usually beyond the dry land, to demark a territory allowable to be treated as dry land, to separate the jurisdictions of dry land and water authorities, for construction and riparian activities, to establish limits to the allowable obstructions to navigation and other waterfront uses.[1]

In particular, it may limit the construction of piers in the absence of an official pier line (pierhead line).[2]

Various jurisdictions may define it in different ways. A formal definition may read as follows: A geographic line along a reach of navigable water that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department of Natural Resources, and which allows limited filling between this bulkhead line and the original ordinary high water mark, except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions. (Several municipalities in Wisconsin use wording closely approximating this sample.)

Notes

  1. Warner, Sara (2007). "Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida". University of Georgia Press. p. 38. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  2. "Bulkhead Line". Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
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