Using this logic, if someone owned property on both sides of the Mississippi, they’d own that slice of the river flowing thru it. Insane.
According to my plat I own to the half way point of the river. I often wonder if somebody drowns in the river in front of my house would I be held accountable.
During the summer weekends I see over 50 canoes, rafts and inner tubes pass by the house.
These numbers are growing, a lot of Yankess are moving to here from up North. The major issue we run into here is people wanting access to the river from our property. Another issue is people leaving their trash in the river.
We sent them away to the public access points mainly for parking issues and property insurance reasons.
Except that logic (or more importantly, that legal principle) does not apply along the Mississippi, which has been claimed as waters of the U.S. since shortly after the Louisiana Purchase.
It’s along smaller rivers, streams and tributaries that some owners may have a claim to owning to the center of the channel.