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

# §59t. Burnham Canal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


The portion of the Burnham Canal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is underneath and west of a point one hundred feet east of South Eleventh Street is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is hereby expressly reserved.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–468, title V, § 503, Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2552.)