To Whom Does This Apply?

Anyone laying cable for ferries.

Summary

The Navigable Waters Protection Act ensures the protection of navigable waters in Canada by forbidding building or replacement works on, over, under, through or across any navigable waters (which is any water where one could float a canoe or kayak -- including a canal and any other body of water created or altered as a result of the construction of any work) unless those works and the site and plans thereof have been approved by the Department of Transport, Navigable Waters Protection Divion, prior to commencement of construction.

The term "work" includes:

• any bridge, boom, dam, wharf, dock, pier, tunnel or pipe and the approaches or other works necessary or appurtenant thereto, any dumping of fill or excavation of materials from the bed of a navigable water;
• any telegraph or power cable or wire; or
• any structure, device or thing, whether similarn in character to anything referred to in this definition or not, that may interfere with navigation.

The Ferry Cable Regulations state that no one can lay, stretch or maintain a ferry cable across, over, in or under any navigable water unless the plans for the ferry cable are approved by the Minister.

DISCLAIMER
Information contained in this section is of a general nature only and is not intended to constitute advice for any specific fact situation. For particular questions, the users are invited to contact their lawyer. For additional information, see contact(s) listed below.

New Brunswick Contact(s):
See National Contact.

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National Contact(s):
Mr. David J. Osbaldeston
National Manager
Navigable Waters Protection Division
Marine Safety
Transport Canada
Tower C, Place de Ville, 10th Floor, Room 1055
330 Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0N8
Telephone: (613) 990-5929
Fax: (613) 998-0637
E-mail: osbaldd@tc.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.tc.gc.ca/en/menu.htm