Riparian rights definition
According to the DNR website: "Riparian rights are property rights arising from owning
shoreland. They include the right to wharf out to a navigable depth; to take water for
domestic and agricultural purposes; to use land added by accretion or exposed by
reliction; to take ice; to fish, boat, hunt, swim; to such other uses as water bodies are
normally put. The riparian owner has the right to make use of the lake over its entire
surface. "
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/waters/watermgmcsection/pwpermits/waterlaws.html