**RIVER**

A natural flowing body of water that empties to any ocean, lake, pond, other wetland, or other river, and which flows throughout the year.

[[http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/massdep/water/regulations/massachusetts-rivers-protection-act.html|The Massachusetts Rivers Protection Act]] defines the jurisdictional are of the Riverfront as follows:

The term "Riverfront area", as used in this section, shall mean that area of land situated between a river's mean annual high- water line and a parallel line located two hundred feet away, measured outward horizontally from the river's mean annual high- water line.