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water power

Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 17211 — in this part

The term "water power" refers to hydropower, including conduit power, pumped storage, and marine energy technologies.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The water-power to which a riparian owner is entitled consists of the fall in the stream, when in its natural state, as it passes through his land, or along the boundary of it; or, in other words, it consists of the difference of level between the surface where the stream first touches his land, and the surface where it leaves ft. McCalmont v. Whitaker, 3 Rawle, (Pa) 90, 23 Am. Dec. 102,

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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The term waterpower, in a vote to exempt "improvements made upon the water-power on " a stream, &C., does not include the operation of a located above the dam. Flaisted v. Lincoln, 62 Me. 91.