navigatability

English

Etymology

From navigate or navigatable +‎ -ability.

Noun

navigatability (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of navigability
   • 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:

     The feasibility of the project as a grain and shipping route for western Canada depends upon the navigatability of the Hudson Strait.

   • 1927 October 27, “Scion Honored at Big Dinner”, in Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, volume LXIV, number 49, Lancaster, Pa., page seven:

     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|

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     We were led to visualize the loss of this navigatability through the use of its waters for irrigation.

   • 1957 May 6, Vernon Baker, “Arizona-California Suit Continues”, in Williams Daily News, volume two, number one, Williams, Ariz., page 2:

     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.

   • 1973 April 11, “Gravel Rights Question Raised”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 45:

     The Mendocino case raises interesting questions about litigation now in progress over the navigatability of another Empire stream, the Russian River.

   • 1988 June 30, Jeff Brown, “Safety on the water”, in La Crosse Tribune, page D-2:

     “Lowering the water level narrows the navigatability of the Black River and the Mississippi River,” Gurske said.

   • 2008 August 9, Daily American, volume 80, number 39, Somerset, Pa., page 15:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     “This eliminates the obstruction, increases the navigatability and makes it look like less of a marina.”