navigatability

The feasibility of the project as a grain and shipping route for western Canada depends upon the navigatability of the Hudson Strait.

1924 April 19, “Canada Should Go Slow About Hudson Bay Line”, in The Calgary Albertan, twenty-third year, number 44, Calgary, Alta., section “Hudson Bay Railway”, page eight

Lancaster, England, was at one time a prosperous shipbuilding town, but the industry was taken away because of the lack of navigatability of the Luna river|

1927 October 27, “Scion Honored at Big Dinner”, in Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, volume LXIV, number 49, Lancaster, Pa., page seven

In order to get federal aid in improving the navigatability of the Caloosahatchee river, this city must establish by tonnage figures that there is a need for deeper waterways.

1929 October 10, “City Zoning Law Up for Discussion: Council to Decide Fate of Proposed Gas Depot”, in The Fort Myers Press, volume 19, number 46, Fort Myers, Fla., section “Property Owners Object”, page one

Wilmer stated in his arguments that under a statute of 1890 Congress made “a statement of public policy” in which it said it did not intend that “navigatability of any river should be impaired” by diversions of water.

1957 May 6, Vernon Baker, “Arizona-California Suit Continues”, in Williams Daily News, volume two, number one, Williams, Ariz., page 2

The Mendocino case raises interesting questions about litigation now in progress over the navigatability of another Empire stream, the Russian River.

1973 April 11, “Gravel Rights Question Raised”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 45