33 U.S.C. § 28 : US Code - Section 28: Crum River; old channel at mouth, Delaware Bay

Search 33 U.S.C. § 28 : US Code - Section 28: Crum River; old channel at mouth, Delaware Bay

After the channel of the Crum River where the same empties into
the Delaware River has been changed, diverted, and straightened
under the authority given to Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain
and the Baldwin Locomotive Works by Act July 27, 1916, chapter 260,
the said Crum River, as so straightened, shall be a public
navigable stream, and the course and channel of the said river, as
it existed July 27, 1916, from the right-of-way of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway Company to the low-water line in the Delaware
River shall be abandoned and vacated when the above-mentioned new
channel shall have been completed to a depth of four feet at mean
low water, with a bottom width of sixty-two feet and width of one
hundred feet at mean low-water level: Provided, That the Government
shall have such right, title, and interest in and to the bed of
said new channel as will assure the public the right to the
perpetual use of said channel for all the purposes of navigation
and commerce.