Boundary between Georgia and South Carolina
 
50-2-2 G
*** CODE SECTION ***  01/23/01
 
  50-2-2.
 
  The boundary between Georgia and South Carolina shall be the line
  described as running from the mouth of the River Savannah, up said
  river and the Rivers Tugalo and Chattooga, to the point where the
  last-named river intersects with the thirty-fifth parallel of north
  latitude, conforming as much as possible to the line agreed on by
  the commissioners of said states at Beaufort on April 28, 1787,
  except for the Barnwell Islands and the Oyster Bed Island in the
  River Savannah; provided, however, that the boundary along the lower
  reaches of the Savannah River, and the lateral seaward boundary,
  shall be more particularly described as being:
 
    BEGINNING at a point 32 degrees 07 minutes 00 seconds North
    Latitude and 81 degrees 07 minutes 00 seconds West Longitude,
    located in the Savannah River, and proceeding in a southeasterly
    direction down the thread of the Savannah River equidistant
    between the banks of the River on Hutchinson Island and on the
    mainland of South Carolina, including the small downstream island
    southeast of the aforesaid point, at ordinary stage, until
    reaching the vicinity of Pennyworth Island;
 
    Proceeding thence easterly down the thread of the northernmost
    channel of the Savannah River as it flows north of Pennyworth
    Island, making the transition to the said northernmost channel
    using the triequidistant method between Pennyworth Island, the
    Georgia bank on Hutchinson Island, and the South Carolina mainland
    bank, thence to the thread of the said northernmost channel
    equidistant from the South Carolina mainland bank and Pennyworth
    Island at ordinary stage, around Pennyworth Island;
 
    Proceeding thence southeasterly to the thread of the northern
    channel of the Savannah River equidistant from the Georgia bank on
    Hutchinson Island and the South Carolina mainland bank, making the
    transition utilizing the triequidistant method between Pennyworth
    Island, the Georgia bank on Hutchinson Island, and the South
    Carolina mainland bank;
 
    Proceeding thence southeasterly down the thread of the Savannah
    River equidistant from the Hutchinson Island and South Carolina
    mainland banks of the river at ordinary stage, through the tide
    gates, until intersecting the northwestern (farthest upstream)
    boundary of the "Back River Sediment Basin," as defined in the
    "Annual Survey - 1992, Savannah Harbor, Georgia, U.S. Coastal
    Highway, No. 17 to the Sea," U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
    Savannah District, as amended by the Examination Survey - 1992
    charts for the Savannah Harbor Deepening Project, Drawings No. DSH
    112/107, (hereinafter the "Channel Chart");
 
    Proceeding thence along the said northwestern boundary to its
    intersection with the northern boundary of the Back River Sediment
    Basin, in a generally southeasterly direction until said boundary
    intersects the northern boundary of the main navigational channel
    as depicted on the Channel Chart at the point designated as SR-34
    (Georgia State Grid, East Zone, 1927 NAD, coordinates
    x=849479.546, y=759601.757);
 
    Proceeding thence toward the mouth of the Savannah River along the
    northern boundary of the main navigational channel at the new
    channel limit as depicted on the Channel Chart, via Oglethorpe
    Range through point SR-33 (coordinates x=853126.849,
    y=761229.575), Fort Jackson Range through point SR-32 (coordinates
    x=854568.183, y=762555.255), the Bight Channel through points
    SR-31 (coordinates x=855854.367, y=765145.946), SR-30 (coordinates
    x=857363.583, y=766237.604), SR-29 (coordinates x=858471.561,
    y=766530.527), SR-28 (coordinates x=859881.928, y=766491.887), and
    SR-27 (coordinates x=861359.826, y=765804.794), Upper Flats Range
    through point SR-26 (coordinates x=863655.959, y=763821.629),
    Lower Flats Range through points SR-25 (coordinates x=865361.347,
    y=759910.744), SR-24 (coordinates x=866413.099, y=758260.171),
    SR-23 (coordinates x=867339.230, y=757647.194), SR-22 (coordinates
    x=870024.011, y=756511.390), and SR-21 (coordinates x=873855.646,
    y=755906.677), Crossing Range through points SR-20 (coordinates
    x=875581.821, y=754992.833), and SR-19 (coordinates x=884667.253,
    y=744780.789) and New Channel Range around the Rehandling Basin,
    and along the northern boundary of the Oyster Bed Island Turning
    Basin through point SR-16 (coordinates x=894907.977,
    y=742529.752), to the easternmost end of Oyster Bed Island at
    Navigational Buoy R "24";
 
    Proceeding thence from Navigational Buoy R "24" easterly along the
    mean low water line of Oyster Bed Island to the point at which the
    mean low water line of Oyster Bed Island intersects the Oyster Bed
    Island Training Wall;
 
    Proceeding thence along the southern edge of the Oyster Bed Island
    Training Wall until reaching the Jones Island Range line;
 
    Proceeding thence southeasterly along the Jones Island Range line
    until reaching the northern boundary of the main navigational
    channel as depicted on the Channel Chart;
 
    Proceeding thence southeasterly along the northern boundary of the
    main navigational channel as depicted on the Channel Chart to
    Navigational Buoy R "6," via Jones Island Range and Bloody Point
    Range; and finally
 
    Proceeding thence in an easterly direction from Navigational Buoy
    R "6" in a straight line forming the seaward lateral boundary line
    to the seaward limit of Georgia as now or hereafter fixed by the
    Congress of the United States, said boundary line bearing
    approximately 104 degrees from magnetic north, the bearing of said
    line being more particularly described as being at right angles to
    the baseline from the southernmost point of Hilton Head Island and
    the northernmost point of Tybee Island, drawn by the Baseline
    Committee in 1970.
 
  Provided, however, that the boundary shall be as more particularly
  shown by reference to the United States Department of Commerce,
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GPS
  coordinates on a map to be prepared by NOAA as a part of the survey
  commissioned by the States of Georgia and South Carolina in order to
  locate this boundary.  In case of any conflict between the verbal
  description set forth hereinabove and the map locating the boundary
  with reference to GPS points, the location shown on the map shall
  prevail.
 
  Provided, further, that nothing herein shall in any way be deemed to
  govern or affect in any way the division between the states of the
  remaining assimilative capacity, that is, the capacity to receive
  wastewater and other discharges without violating water quality
  standards, of the portion of the Savannah River described herein.

Consented to and recognized as an interstate compact in Pub. L. No. 106-90,
113 Stat. 1307, approved November 8, 1999.