Editing Bulkhead line

'''Bulkhead line''' is an officially set line along a [[shoreline]], usually beyond the dry land, to demark a territory allowable to be treated as dry land, to separate the jurisdictions of dry land and water authorities, for construction and [[riparian]] activities, to establish limits to the allowable obstructions to [[navigation]] and other waterfront uses.<ref>{{cite book|last=Warner|first=Sara|title=Down to the Waterline: Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPwBjfXDul0C&q=%22bulkhead+line%22+-site:en.wikipedia.org&pg=PA38|publisher=University of Georgia Press|access-date=29 April 2014|page=38|year=2007|isbn=9780820330372}}</ref> In particular, it may limit the construction of piers in the absence of an official [[pierhead line]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bulkhead Line|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulkhead%20line|work=Merriam-Webster.com|publisher=Merriam-Webster|access-date=29 April 2014}}</ref>

Various jurisdictions may define it in different ways. A formal definition may read as follows: ''A geographic line along a reach of navigable water that has been adopted by a municipal ordinance and approved by the [[Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources|Department of Natural Resources]], and which allows limited filling between this bulkhead line and the original [[ordinary high water mark]], except where such filling is prohibited by the floodway provisions.''<ref>[https://www.codepublishing.com/WI/Wittenberg/html/Wittenberg18/Wittenberg1810.html 18.10 DEFINITIONS.], from the municipal code of [[Wittenberg (town), Wisconsin|Wittenberg]], Wisconsin</ref>(Several municipalities in [[Wisconsin]] use wording closely approximating this sample.)

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