P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 704
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The owner of the higher or dominant tenement may likewise construct thereon sloping banks, jetties, or walls, which without burdening the servitude upon the lower tenement, will lessen the force of the stream of water and prevent it from carrying with it vegetable soil or causing damage to the estate.
History —Law of Waters, art. 72.