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Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on December 12, 2010 at 11:31am

The DCNR?  I'm guessing that you don't fish or boat.  Here is a Fish & Boat FAQ on navigable vs non-navigable PA waters and ownership/rights:

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/water/public/faq_public_waters.htm

 

 

Permalink Reply by William Ladd on December 12, 2010 at 2:08pm

This was a question that was asked from another site concerning the rights of DCNR to claim the actual stream bed for the purpose of leasing for gas removal.  I have a creek bed that has carved out perhaps two or three acres on my property.  Someome was asking if DCNR could claim ownership for the streambed and if yes, what would determine the cut off point?

 

Yes Ann, I used to fish but only my neighbor's farm ponds which I stocked many years ago.  Boating ? Not very often! I used to swim in Seneca Lake as a kid at Geneva, New York. I nearly drown when I was a very small boy. Some bigger kids had a log they were riding on. They put me on it and went off to some other area. I fell off the log. I still recall bobbing up and down in the bluish colored water and the bubbles escaping from my mouth and rising happily to the surface.

BLUB, BLUB, BlUB!

Someone grabbed me and I was none the worst for the experience. And NO! It did not scare me away from swimming in later years.

 

I thank you for your information.

 Bill L.

aka Bummy

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on December 12, 2010 at 3:42pm

The only situation I think of where the DCNR might have something to do with privately owned land would be if it was an inholding in a State Forest (or other DCNR-administered land) .  And, the state owns the mineral rights.  Otherwise, looking at it practically, I doubt a single horizontal bore that follows a stream bed would be an attractive proposition for an O/G lease.