River and Lake Boundaries

Surveying Water Boundaries - Second Edition

By James A. Simpson, PE and LS

An analysis of the facts with explanatory maps involved on over 70 leading cases on water boundaries from the time of Johnston v. Jones, Railroad v. Schurmeir and St. Louis v. Rutz which were heard in the 1800's to the 1900's and to the present.  Includes facts and analysis of four modern cases tried in the 1990's.

 

Coverage Includes:

 

• How to recognize a water boundary problem.
• Particularly valuable for meander line problems and ordinary high water mark determination.
• Conduct of navigability studies, a how-to-do-it approach.
• Avulsion surveys and Accretion  thoroughly treated.
• Islands and ownership boundaries of island areas.
• Famous litigation over water boundaries.
• Why rivers move their banks.
• How to estimate the date of past river movement.
• Quick-reference flow chart as a supplementary study guide.
• Tips on Courtroom Testimony

• More than 400 pages.
• 400 photos and illustrations.