State Ex Rel. Medlock v. South Carolina Coastal Council

How courts have described this case

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• holding canals and ditches, dug by rice planters for the purpose of water control but used thereafter by the general public as natural waterways, “have become the functional equivalent of natural streams”
• “The use of this waterway by the general public for boating, hunting, and fishing is a legitimate and beneficial public use.”
• canals and ditches, dug by rice planters for the purpose of water control but since used by the general public as natural waterways, “have become the functional equivalent of natural streams”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).