Chapter 4. Riparian Water Law.

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.    Mark Twain.
Who else?
    Water, taken in moderation, can not hurt anybody.

Eastern Stream

Some Outside Reference Sources

Tentative Outline of Riparian Rights
Panther Coal Co. v. Loney, 40 S.E.2d 298 (Va. 1946).
What Enoch's branch may have looked like when Looney filed suit:
Acid Mine Drainage

Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 850 and 850A.

"Basic Law of Water Boundaries", from the U.S. Bureau of Land Managment. This site was temporarily off line on March 9, 2002. It is good enough to try again from time to time. CAF

Note on the Statutory Regulation of the Right of "Public Water Supply Agencies (Municipal and Privately Owned Public Utilities) to Acquire "Water;" and "Water Rights" in Pennsylvania

Some Groundwater sources:



Natural Resoutces Law /2002 Professor Cyril A. Fox / University of Pittsburgh School of Law