CHAPTER ONE WATER RIGHTS

Question 1

The right of a landowner whose land borders on a stream or watercourse to use and enjoy the water which is adjacent to or flows over the owner’s land provided such use does not injure other riparian owners.

• associated with a moving body of water. like a river
• belong equally to all owners

Answer 1

Riparian Rights

Question 2

The right of a property owner whose land borders on a body of water, such as a lake, ocean or sea, to reasonable use and enjoyment of the shore and water the property borders on.

• navigable lakes and oceans
• water rights are attached to the land and not the owner

Answer 2

Littoral Rights

Question 3

property owners with ___ water rights own the land underneath the water, up to the mean low water mark or 100 rods below the mean high water mark for tidal waters.

Answer 3

littoral

Question 4

Accession by natural forces, It means that the soil or sand level is naturally increased, which can serve to decrease the water level on the property owner’s land.

-It’s natural and gradual (alluvium)

Answer 4

Accretion

Question 5

The gradual increase of the earth on a shore on an ocean or bank of a stream resulting from the action of the water.

Answer 5

Alluvium same as accretion

Question 6

An addition to property through the efforts of man or by natural forces. (accretion or alluvium)

Answer 6

Accession

Question 7

The wearing away of land by the act of water, wind, or glacial ice.

Answer 7

Erosion

Question 8

____ is the opposite of accretion or alluvium, in which water rights were decreased because land rights were increased through natural forces.

• less land

Answer 8

Erosion

Question 9

A sudden and perceptible loss of land by the action of water as by a sudden change in the course of a river.

Answer 9

Avulsion