Sentence examples for considered navigable from inspiring English sources

Under this navigability test, and particularly the Army Corps' interpretation of it, even significant portions of the Colorado River might not be considered navigable.

The route they charted, from Mexico to islands of French Polynesia, was considered safely navigable.

Note that area-weighting considered the proportion of navigable (i.e. non-building) area occupied by intersections (33%) versus path segments (67%).

The Portway project would include a new lift bridge over the Passaic River -- the Coast Guard insists on such a bridge since it considers the waterway navigable -- and a trucks-only entrance to the turnpike.

The British clung to this piece of land in French West Africa in the never-realized hopes of exploiting the Gambia River, considered one of the best navigable rivers in Africa.

I was really surprised to find out that 90% of Americans live an hour or less from a navigable body of water; boats larger than 26 feet are considered yachts; and 3 out of 4 American families with boats earn under $100,000 a year.

With influential local landowners such as Sir Jenison Gordon of Haverholme Priory and Sir Christopher Whitchcote of Aswarby wanting to improve communications to the area, a proposal to link Sleaford by canal to Grantham was considered in 1774, but was replaced by a scheme to provide a navigable link along the Slea and the Kyme Eau to the Witham in 1783.

Navigable by small boats as far upstream as Quibdó, the lower Atrato has been considered a feasible route for a transisthmian canal.

The Bridgewater is often considered to be the first true canal in Britain, as it relied upon existing watercourses as sources of water rather than as navigable routes.

Legally, different rules were held to apply to navigable water ways, where the right to harvest the ice belonged to the first to stake a claim, and areas of "public" water such as streams or small lakes, where the ice was considered to belong to the neighboring land owners.

At Compton Creek, a major tributary of the LA River, Administrator Jackson said the EPA now considers the LA River a traditionally-navigable waterway.