ELR Citation: ELR 20527
No(s). 89-162-Appeal (R.I. Jul 2, 1991)

The court holds that owners of lots that previously abutted Mount Hope Bay do not also own the property created by fill from the dredging of the bay. In 1948, a Corps of Engineers' channel dredging project increased the 10-foot strip of beach alone the shoreline of the bay to a 270-foot area of shor...