They are built to make a river more navigable. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
navigable waters. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word navigable is so vague that it requires some definition before we can apply it to any particular stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Historic Thames] Reference
In Michigan, you the sportsperson have the right to fish in navigable streams, up to this ordinary high water mark. From Wordnik.com. [On Stream Rights In Utah] Reference
You can't use the calendar to pinpoint smallmouth whereabouts in navigable rivers, but it does help to know that their location follows a general pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers of Bronze] Reference
With more serious fare and fewer glitzy stars, that means even the streets are a tad more navigable, which is nice. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest] Reference
Earlier this month, the LA River was declared "navigable" by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and thus subject to the Clean Water Act Protections for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden LA River Tour With Jenny Price] Reference
This also gives the function of making that item "navigable". From Wordnik.com. [Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials] Reference
I have some news for the green idiots about that pesky term "navigable". From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
"In a nutshell, what we're asking is the word 'navigable' be kept in the bill," Wiggins said. From Wordnik.com. [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference
Now more an more companies are denying that the EPA has jurisdiction if the creek is not "navigable". From Wordnik.com. [The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics] Reference
Lindblade focused on a rule that says streams not considered "navigable" are not open for activities such as canoeing and kayaking. From Wordnik.com. [The State Journal-Register Home RSS] Reference
The law in one place says the act was to protect the nation's waters, but in other places, it says it's meant to govern "navigable" waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
The last three are navigable streams at all seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Not the most navigable site, but definitely a place to keep tabs on. From Wordnik.com. [103 Best Web Sites] Reference
Some of it navigable, most of it navigable, some of it not navigable. From Wordnik.com. [Reporter’s Notebook From The Congo] Reference
The new definition required the water to feed into a "traditional navigable water.". From Wordnik.com. [A River Really Runs Through It] Reference
The lands are rendered more valuable by being situated on navigable creeks and rivers. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Strengths: highly navigable screen designs, nifty charts and instruction on asset allocation. From Wordnik.com. [Six Antidotes For Old Age] Reference
A more navigable Arctic seems likely to profit everyone but the natives (and those polar bears). From Wordnik.com. [Hot On the Pole] Reference
With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
With some labor in cutting tree-tops out of the way, it will be navigable for any class of steamers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They serve an important purpose in nearly level countries where Nature has placed no navigable river. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The city lies on a spacious plain bounded by mountains, on the right bank of the navigable river Main. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
Ashley and Cooper rivers, which are large and navigable, and wash at least two third parts of the town. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
They soon reached a place where the river became deeper, and broader, so that it was navigable for boats. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
In policy terms, it means finding a navigable channel between all-out Thatcherism and old-style socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Gerhard-Bill-Lionel-Tonyism?] Reference
But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Admiral Porter explored this waterway as far as Deer Creek on the 14th of March, and reported it navigable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Cambahee, Edisto, Ashley, Cooper, and Black rivers; all which are also navigable many miles from the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The river Mississippi being navigable a great way from its mouth, opened a communication with the Choctaws. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water -- many of them navigable for steamers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We learn Kauai has the only navigable rivers in all of Hawaii fed from the "wettest place on earth," Mount Waialeale. From Wordnik.com. [Eileen Ogintz: Kauai Morphs From Garden Isle to Adventure Haven] Reference
The rivers which empty into this network of channels are comparatively difficult of entrance, and but imperfectly navigable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Even if the canal had proven a success, so far as to be navigable for steamers, it could not have been of much advantage to us. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Pedee, there a large, deep, navigable stream, and Mower's division was already across, skirmishing with the enemy about two miles out. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The U.K. has 3,200 kilometers of navigable canals, left over from the 19th century, when it was the industrial manufacturer to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Britain, Narrowly] Reference
It is highly picturesque in its combination of buildings and with a river navigable to its very limits; it is astir with life and commerce. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
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