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Originally Posted by huntin fool
The canal was dugout when they logged the canal. If you say mine isn't private, go down into the 4th culvert of mistreda's.
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If this canal was dug for drainage by a public entity it makes it public. There is a canal that has the land owners that border it claim it private, it has even been to court and the land owners have lost. The reason being is the parish drainage board paid to have the canal dug also after it was dug, LDWF paid to put in a launch. A lot has to do with different variables.
Another body of water that was once private which not many people know is White Lake, in Vermilion parish. The lake was landlocked before the old Intracoastal was dug and the oilfield came in and drilled.
Also from schools I have been to for work, the government defines navigable waters as any water that flows to a natural body of water. The example that was given is this; "the road ditch, that you keep up, if it drains to a natural lake, river, or stream is indeed navigable if it can float a toothpick at least one time in a 365 day period".
Warren