The term navigable waters is defined in section 2 of the Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 409; 48 U.S.C. 411), to include all tidal waters up to the line of ordinary high tide and all nontidal waters navigable in fact up to the line of ordinary highwater mark.


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