Public Shoreline Access And The Moody Beach Case

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Public Shoreline Access And The Moody Beach Case

1990
By Marine Law Institute
Series: Citizen's guides to ocean and coastal law

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Marine Law Institute
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Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)

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MEU (Maine Sea Grant)
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Public access to and along the shore is a sensitive issue in Maine which, despite its magnificent 3500-mile coastline, has only 27 miles of publicly-owned sandy beaches. Moody Beach is a sandy beach, about a mile long, in the Town of Wells, Maine. About 100 private homes adjoin the beach, and in 1984, 28 of these homeowners sought a court declaration to prevent the public from walking, swimming, sunbathing, or using the beach in front of their homes for general recreational purposes. In March, 1989, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision. The case, briefly described here, has come to symbolize the conflict between public versus private rights to the shore in Maine, and it has been cited as authority for the proposition that the public has only very limited rights in the intertidal zone (the area between high and low tide).
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Access Beaches Recreation Areas
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Citizen's guides to ocean and coastal law
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MEU-G-90-001
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Non-series Report
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Maine
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Public Domain
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