STATE LAND LAWS 

 SECS. 229-230 OVERFLOW OF SHORELANDS. 



or other necessary structures in storing and retaining water, 

 for any of the purposes provided for by chapter 150, Laws 

 1909, such city or town shall have the right to occupy and use 

 the beds and shores up to the high water mark of any such 

 watercourse or lakes * * * ; Provided, That should private 

 property be necessary for any such purposes or for storing water 

 above high water mark, such city or town may condemn and pur- 

 chase, or purchase and acquire such private property: And 

 provided further, That no such dam or other structure shall im- 

 pede, obstruct or in any way interfere with public navigation of 

 such lake or watercourse. (Laws '09, p. 580, sec. 1 ; amended, 

 Laws '13, p. 112, sec. 1; 3 Rem.-BaL, sec. 8005; 77 sec. *1073 

 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '99, p. 250, sec. 1; Laws '05, p. 300, sec. 1. 



Right to overflow state lands, generally: sec. 225, supra. 



Cited : 53 Wash. 145 ; 57 Wash. 423-432-435 ; 69 Wash. 680 ; 73 Wash. 276. 



The state cannot authorize the raising of waters above the line of ordinary 

 high water, and a city raising waters above that line is liable to littoral owners 

 for damages resulting from overflow or seepage through and under adjoining 

 soil : Austin v. Bellingham, 69 Wash. 677. 



Ordinary high water defined : idem. 



SEC. 229. WATER DISTRICTS MAY USE BEDS AND SHORES. 



For all the purposes of constructing or laying aqueducts or 

 pipe lines, dams or water works, or other necessary structures in 

 storing and retaining water, or for any of the purposes provided 

 for in chapter 161, Laws 1913, any water district shall have the 

 right to occupy the beds and shores up to the high water mark 

 of any lake, river or other watercourse. (Adapted from Laws 

 '13, p. 538, sec. 8; 3 Rem.-BaL, sec. 9510-8.) 



See notes to sec. 225, supra. 



SEC. 230. BEDS AND SHORES GRANTED TO IRRIGATION AND 



POWER COMPANIES FORFEITURE. 



There is hereby granted to persons, firms and corporations 

 organized among other things, for irrigation and power pur- 

 poses, the right to construct and maintain dams and works 

 incident thereto over, upon and across the beds of the rivers of 

 the State of Washington in connection with such power and 



