33 U.S.C. § 59a: Back Cove, Portland, Maine

(a) Portion declared nonnavigableThat 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 abandonedThat 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 sectionThe right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.