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.

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.