Bulkhead line

Bulkhead line

Bulkhead line is an officially set line along a shoreline, usually outside of the dry land, to demark a territory allowable to be treated as dry land, to separate the jurisdictions of dry land and water authorities, for construction and riparian activities, to establish limits to the allowable obstructions to navigation, etc.

In particular, it may limit the construction of piers in the absence of an official pier line (pierhead line).

Various jurisdictions may define it in a different way. A formal definition may read, e.g., as follows: "A geographic line along a reach of navigable water that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the Department of Natural Resources, and which allows limited filling between this bulkhead line and the original ordinary high water mark, except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions."


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