context: Under Rice, the term "adjacent" cannot include every possible source of water that eventually flows into a navigable-in-fact waterway. Rather, adjacency necessarily implicates a "significant nexus" between the water in question and the navigable-in-fact waterway.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 531 U.S. 167, 167
citation_a.parenthetical: finding that Riverside Bayview Homes turned on the "significant nexus" between the wetlands and the "navigable waters"
citation_a.sentence: See SWANCC, 531 U.S. at 167, 121 S.Ct. 675 (finding that Riverside Bayview Homes turned on the “significant nexus” between the wetlands and the “navigable waters”); see also Rice, 250 F.3d at 271 (requiring that the adjacent body of water be “sufficiently linked” to the navigable-in-fact water).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 250 F.3d 271, 271
citation_b.parenthetical: requiring that the adjacent body of water be "sufficiently linked" to the navigable-in-fact water
citation_b.sentence: See SWANCC, 531 U.S. at 167, 121 S.Ct. 675 (finding that Riverside Bayview Homes turned on the “significant nexus” between the wetlands and the “navigable waters”); see also Rice, 250 F.3d at 271 (requiring that the adjacent body of water be “sufficiently linked” to the navigable-in-fact water).