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Originally Posted by flyboy1
and if you want to get technical you can stand in an inch of water and there is nothing the police can do cuz the actual water is public.
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Not true. Only the water itself is public domain. The river bed can be owned. IOW, its okay as long as your not touching the bottom(like in a boat). Its silly but that's NJ law for you. Many examples of this in NJ where you have a nice trout stream flowing through private land. Even if you access the stream via public land, once you enter posted land, that streambed is also private land as well. Pa has the navigable river law whereby any river(like the Lehigh) designated as a navigable is !00% public both the water and bed of the river. Not sure that applies to NJ rivers. Personally I don't see how one can own a stream. Its like owning air or clouds.
