Winter Park Home Magazine - Issue 5 - 2007

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE - Is any of it mine?
by Frank L. Pohl, Attorney At Law
Partner, Pohl & Short, P.A., Winter Park

The Florida peninsula is bordered on the East by the Atlantic and on the West and South by the Gulf. Together with its rivers, and approximately 30,000 lakes, Florida truly is a land where there is "water, water everywhere." People frequently ask me who owns these different bodies of water, whether the general public has an unlimited right to use them for recreational purposes, how to access them, and the rights of the landowners abutting them. More......

(Riparian Rights)