Open water definition

Open water means an area that, during a year with normal patterns of precipitation, has standing water for sufficient duration to establish an ordinary high water mark. The term "open water" includes lakes and ponds but does not include ephemeral waters, stream beds, or wetlands.
Open water means any water beyond a natural growth of vegetation rooted to the bottom and extending above the water surface of such height as to offer whole or partial concealment for the hunter. Dead stumps and dead trees in water do not constitute a natural growth of vegetation.
Open water means an area that, during a year with normal patterns of precipitation, has

Examples of Open water in a sentence

  • The results of this workshop will be presented at the 2015 Open Water Meeting.


More Definitions of Open water

Open water means any portion of a navigable water body which does not contain a naturally occurring growth of emergent vegetation rooted to the bottom that provides all of the following:
Open water means any body of water significantly larger than a swimming pool offering conditions typical of a natural body of water encountered in the region.
Open water means water on or accessible to Lake Michigan that is not within a protected harbor.
Open water means water sold by Lower Burdekin Water from its infrastructure or via the Burdekin River system and other watercourses
Open water means a large area of freely navigable water in which sea ice is present in concentrations less than 1/10. No ice of land origin is present.
Open water means a water surface absent of emergent vegetation.
Open water. ’ means less than 25 percent ice coverage within a one mile radius of the discharge site.