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While Georgia’s larger rivers – including the Altamaha, the Chattahoochee, and the Savannah – are clearly navigable, other rivers aren’t as simple to classify.
A state House committee has narrowly approved legislation guaranteeing Georgians the right to fish in navigable rivers and streams over the objections of representatives of recreational boating ...
Front and center in the debate has been legislation House Majority Whip James Burchett, R-Waycross, introduced this year naming 64 rivers and creeks “presumed to be navigable.” ...
The House Study Committee on Navigable Streams and Related Matters grew out of a legislative effort to name sections of some 64 streams and rivers in Georgia as “navigable” and thus open to ...
Burchett introduced legislation this year naming 64 rivers and creeks “presumed to be navigable.” The list includes such no-brainers as the Altamaha, Chattahoochee, Flint, and Savannah rivers.
The Colorado Supreme Court could have settled this case once and for all by taking up Hill’s request for the courts to rule that he and others have access to wade, float or fish navigable rivers ...