Waterbody definition

Waterbody means any accumulation of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, including rivers, streams, creeks, ditches, swales, lakes, ponds, marshes, wetlands, and ground water. The term does not include any storage or treatment structures.

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Waterbody means surface water feature, whether standing or flowing, including, but not limited to, sounds, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and creeks including waters of the state.

Waterbody means any river, stream, lake, pond, swamp, ▇▇▇▇▇, or other body of water; and

Examples of Waterbody in a sentence

• The Band shall, immediately upon creation of an Entitlement Reserve, have full common law riparian rights with respect to the use and occupation of that Entitlement Reserve adjacent to a Waterbody, but, for greater certainty, the principle of ad medium filium aquae shall be inapplicable unless the affected beds and shores have otherwise been acquired by the Band under section 6.02.

• N.-22, the Band shall have the right to place a dock, wharf or pier on the bed of the Waterbody along the boundary of any such Waterbody which is adjacent to an Entitlement Reserve, without needing to obtain any licence or to pay any fee or compensation whatsoever.

• Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, but subject to applicable legislation, Saskatchewan and the Band may enter into a Co-Management Agreement concerning the management and use of all or any portion of a particular Waterbody adjacent to an Entitlement Reserve (including its water, bed and shore) affecting the Band's common law riparian rights, which meets the needs and objectives of all parties.

• Saskatchewan agrees to give favourable consideration to offers from the Band to Purchase the beds and shores of any Waterbody adjacent to Entitlement Land.

• Saskatchewan agrees to give favourable consideration to offers from an Entitlement Band to Purchase the beds and shores of any Waterbody adjacent to Entitlement Land.

More Definitions of Waterbody

Waterbody means any body of flowing or standing water, whether naturally or artificially created, and whether the flow or presence of water is continuous, intermittent or occurs only during a flood, including but not limited to a lake, river, creek, stream, and wetland (slough, marsh, swamp, etc.), including ice on any of them (The Water Protection Act 2005); and

Waterbody means any bay, lake, natural watercourse or canal, other than a drainage ditch or irrigation channel.

Waterbody means any lake, pond, stream, spring or wetland or portion thereof that is a water of the state.

Waterbody means any significant accumulation of water, such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, creeks, springs, seeps, artesian wells, wetlands, canals, groundwater from a subterranean stream flowing through a known and definite channel, or similar features. Waterbody shall not include off-stream constructed reservoirs filled exclusively using Non-Diversionary sources such as Captured Rainfall.

Waterbody means a lake, river, wetland, or portion thereof.

Waterbody means any lake, pond, river, or stream including all tributaries upstream to the first barrier impassable to upstream fish movement.

Waterbody means a watercourse or waterbasin.