Wow! Two vertical sovereignty issues in one day....
LN
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> I have placed onto the web for your viewing pleasure at
www.mexlist.com/mxus/ a
> group of photos of the boundary monument on the international
railway bridge
> between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
>
> This bridge was built in 1922. Curiously, all of these photos were
taken from
> dry land on the north bank of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte (as
the two
> nations differently call it). The river has moved southward by
accretion since
> the boundary was demarcated on the bridge by the International Boundary
> Commission (now the International Boundary and Water Commission).
The boundary
> has moved with the river, except on the bridge structure, where it
remains
> fixed. What about the land directly under the Mexican part of the
bridge, where
> my car was parked as I took these photos? I theorized that's Mexico
too, but
> I'm not sure how the IWBC feels about it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA