---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 59u"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "59u"
heading: "Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/59u"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name"
---

# §59u. Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey


The body of water known as Lawyer’s Ditch located at block 5,000 in the city of Newark, county of Essex, New Jersey, is declared to be a nonnavigable waterway of the United States within the meaning of the General Bridge Act of 1946 ([33 U.S.C. 525](/usc/33/525.md) et seq.).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 446.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The General Bridge Act of 1946, referred to in text, is title V of act Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, 60 Stat. 847, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 525 et seq.) of chapter 11 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 525 of this title and Tables.