33 U.S.C. § 59o : US Code - Section 59O: Hackensack River, Hudson County, New Jersey

Search 33 U.S.C. § 59o : US Code - Section 59O: Hackensack River, Hudson County, New Jersey

(a) If the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of
Engineers finds that the proposed project to be erected at the
location to be declared nonnavigable under this section is in the
public interest, on the basis of engineering studies to determine
the location and structural stability of any bulkheading and
filling and permanent pile-supported structure, in order to
preserve and maintain the remaining navigable waterway, and on the
basis of environmental studies conducted pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.], then
those portions of the Hackensack River in Hudson County, State of
New Jersey, bounded and described as follows are hereby declared to
be nonnavigable waters of the United States within the meaning of
the laws of the United States, and the consent of Congress is
hereby given to the filling in of all or any part thereof and the
erection of permanent pile-supported structures thereon:
Beginning at a point where the southeasterly shoreline (mean
high water line) of the Hackensack River intersects the easterly
line of the Erie Railroad said point property being 2,015.38 feet
northerly along said railroad property from where it intersects
the northerly line of the Meadowlands Parkway (100 feet wide) and
running from:
thence north 19 degrees 20 minutes 54 seconds west 50.00
feet;
thence north 37 degrees 30 minutes 08 seconds east 615.38
feet;
thence north 03 degrees 02 minutes 56 seconds east, 2,087
feet;
thence north 31 degrees 11 minutes 06 seconds east 577 feet;
thence north 74 degrees 29 minutes 18 seconds east 541.25
feet;
thence south 62 degrees 01 minutes 31 seconds east 400 feet;
thence south 55 degrees 46 minutes 27 seconds east 612.52
feet;
thence south 34 degrees 13 minutes 33 seconds west 517.79
feet;
thence south 55 degrees 46 minutes 27 seconds east 158.81
feet;
thence south 34 degrees 13 minutes 33 seconds west 310 feet;
thence north 55 degrees 26 minutes 27 seconds north 15 feet;
thence south 34 degrees 13 minutes 33 seconds west 592 feet;
thence running in a southwesterly direction along the
shoreline (mean high water line) of the Hackensack River, a
distance of 2,360 feet being the same more or less to the
easterly property line of the Erie Railroad and the point or
place of beginning.
Said parcel containing 67.6 acres being the same more or less.
(b) The declaration in subsection (a) of this section shall apply
only to portions of the described area which are either bulkheaded
and filled or occupied by permanent pile-supported structures.
Plans for bulkheading and filling and permanent pile-supported
structures shall be approved by the Secretary of the Army, acting
through the Chief of Engineers. Local interests shall reimburse the
Federal Government for engineering and all other costs incurred
under this section.