navigatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From navigate or navigatable + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The feasibility of the project as a grain and shipping route for western Canada depends upon the navigatability of the Hudson Strait.
ref: 1924 April 19, “Canada Should Go Slow About Hudson Bay Line”, in The Calgary Albertan, twenty-third year, number 44, Calgary, Alta., section “Hudson Bay Railway”, page eight:
text: Lancaster, England, was at one time a prosperous shipbuilding town, but the industry was taken away because of the lack of navigatability of the Luna river|
ref: 1927 October 27, “Scion Honored at Big Dinner”, in Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, volume LXIV, number 49, Lancaster, Pa., page seven:
text: In order to get federal aid in improving the navigatability of the Caloosahatchee river, this city must establish by tonnage figures that there is a need for deeper waterways.
ref: 1929 October 10, “City Zoning Law Up for Discussion: Council to Decide Fate of Proposed Gas Depot”, in The Fort Myers Press, volume 19, number 46, Fort Myers, Fla., section “Property Owners Object”, page one:
text: We were led to visualize the loss of this navigatability through the use of its waters for irrigation.
ref: 1932 April 21, “Sportsmen Visit Salinas River to View Proposed State Fishing Reserve”, in Santa Cruz News, volume 49, number 123, Santa Cruz, Calif., page three:
text: Wilmer stated in his arguments that under a statute of 1890 Congress made “a statement of public policy” in which it said it did not intend that “navigatability of any river should be impaired” by diversions of water.
ref: 1957 May 6, Vernon Baker, “Arizona-California Suit Continues”, in Williams Daily News, volume two, number one, Williams, Ariz., page 2:
text: The Mendocino case raises interesting questions about litigation now in progress over the navigatability of another Empire stream, the Russian River.
ref: 1973 April 11, “Gravel Rights Question Raised”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 45:
text: “Lowering the water level narrows the navigatability of the Black River and the Mississippi River,” Gurske said.
ref: 1988 June 30, Jeff Brown, “Safety on the water”, in La Crosse Tribune, page D-2:
text: Representatives from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will present a special program on state river navigatability and public access issues at 7:30 p.m.
ref: 2008 August 9, Daily American, volume 80, number 39, Somerset, Pa., page 15:
text: The minimum monthly flows were demanded by South Australia, which viewed river navigatability as the highest priority water use during that period. Since river navigatability is no longer a priority, South Australia now allocates water from its monthly flow entitlement to irrigators.
ref: 2011, Wendy Craik, James Cleaver, “Modern agriculture under stress: lessons from the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia”, in Alberto Garrido, Helen Ingram, editors, Water for Food in a Changing World, Routledge, page 48:
text: “This eliminates the obstruction, increases the navigatability and makes it look like less of a marina.”
ref: 2015 December 9, Greg Stanley, “Collier extends paramedic agreement with North Collier Fire, removes taxi rules”, in Naples Daily News, 92nd year, number 138, page 4A:
glosses: Alternative form of navigability.