said Texas officials were required to request and obtain permission from the federal government before assembling the barriers, which were put in place earlier this month. The river buoys, the department argued, violate a long-standing federal law that governs structures in navigable waterways. The...
The survey could add a new legal dimension to the Biden administration lawsuit, which argues that Texas violated a longstanding law governing navigable U.S. waterways when it set up the buoys without federal permission. It has asked the federal district court in Austin to force Texas to remove ...
definitely a skill I could stand to master.Then I cruised the Comal, the shortest navigable river in Texas. Its two-and-a-half-mile length is within the New Braunfels city limits, and though coolers are allowed, it’s generally not the floating frat party found on other area waterways. ...
The right to free passage on our waterways rests on a vague 1863 ruling by the Texas Supreme Court that affirms the “settled policy and cherished object of the state to guard its navigable streams from obstruction and to secure and improve them as common highways of trade and travel.” Wi...