WATER-DEPENDENT USES: 310 CMR 10.04

Those uses and facilities that require direct access to, or location in, marine, tidal or inland waters and therefore cannot be located away from said waters, including but not limited to: marinas, public recreational uses, navigational and commercial fishing and boating facilities, water based recreational uses, navigation aids, basins and channels, industrial uses dependent upon waterborne transportation or requiring large volumes of cooling or process water that cannot reasonably be located or operated at an upland site, crossings over or under water bodies or waterways (but limited to railroad and public roadway bridges, tunnels, culverts, as well as railroad tracks and public roadways connecting thereto which are generally perpendicular to the water body or waterway) and any other uses and facilities as may further hereafter be defined as water-dependent in 310 CMR 9.00.