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Navigable hydraulic structures


Navigable hydraulic engineering structures — hydraulic engineering structures that represent engineering and technical structures (including shore protection structures, breakwaters, dikes, piers, dams, approach channels, underwater structures created as a result of dredging works, pumping stations, navigational locks, ship lifts, hydroelectric power station buildings, spillways, outlet structures, tunnels, and other objects) and are intended for ensuring established dimensions of waterway routes and for the passage of vessels, as well as a complex of such hydraulic engineering structures1;

  1. GUIDELINES FOR THE TECHNICAL OPERATION OF VESSELS OF INLAND WATER TRANSPORT. 2001, amended on July 31, 2025, Article 3. ↩