2006, Google Earth:
These are two separate land forms. The one to the west is a National Wildlife Refuge. The one to the east is Town of Chatham with a National Seashore Overlay.
2007, Google Earth:
The National Wildlife Refuge has released a draft of their new management plan. The local paper had an article and one of the Federal Employees had the following quote:
"In the early 2000s, South Beach joined South Monomoy Island; for several years, the town, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Cape Cod National Seashore, which encompasses South Beach within its boundary, had an informal agreement placing the limit of the refuge at about the spot where the two land forms joined. Herland said planners looked at the original declaration of taking as well as case law on accretion of coastal land and determined the boundary should be at the 2013 inlet."
The original taking was ambulatory: By Mean Low Water of the Atlantic Ocean.
Does anyone know of the case law that would extend a boundary when two landforms merge? (No Foggy, not the Land Court Case at the other end of this beach, real case law)
41°36'19.15"N
69°58'52.94"W
Unfortunately Google Earth Imagery does not show the 2013 breach yet. It's about 15,000 feet NNE of the coordinate.
Google Maps reports aerial dating to 2104, FYI. But no streetview in the vicinity. 😀
There's a lot in Louisiana, but I question whether anything related to the Napoleonic Civil Code would count as a precedent in a Court of Common Law.
I have a copy of Volume 3 of Shalowitz's "Shore and Sea Boundaries," but I have never gotten around to reading the thing yet.
Volume 3 (Government Printing Office) is probably still in print and available.
looks like pac-man in the top middle
so, does that mean that the seals are fair game? I know the fishermen would love it up there. lol. SWMBO, the little one and I should be up in Harwich Port in August to visit the parents. You, Don and I should get together. He comes down my way often (East central/south Florida), but it's always during the week and i can never seem to sneak away from work.
Paul
Nice. Look forward to meeting you.
I'll find one for you, Thadd. But I'm at my mothers now anddon't have time to research.
Dtp
I hope all is well, Don.
I would think that if an island owner could claim the attached reverse tombolo then why couldn't the owner of the reverse tombolo claim the attached island?
Volume 3 is difficult to find and is no longer in print. But you can view it at:
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/hsd/shalowitz.html
