---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 59a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "59a"
heading: "Back Cove, Portland, Maine"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/59a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name"
---

# §59a. Back Cove, Portland, Maine

- (a) **Portion declared nonnavigable—** That portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying southerly of a line across the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- (b) **Portion abandoned—** That portion of the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove lying southerly of a line across the channel twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, a distance of approximately thirty-five hundred feet, is abandoned.
- (c) **Preservation of right to alter, amend or repeal section—** The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)