This was my project at deer camp this year.
Should I not poop outside ?
Posted on 11/13/2013 12:02:00 PM PST by rktman
While the country is immersed in Obamacare headlines and a congressional tussle over delays and mandates, the Obama administration is stealthily moving toward unprecedented control over private property under a massive expansion of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act authority.
The proposed rule, obtained by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee in advance of EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy’s testimony at a Thursday oversight hearing, widely broadens the definition of waterways over which the federal government has jurisdiction to as little as a water ditch in a backyard.
The Clean Water Act redefinition of “waters of the United States” would include all ponds, lakes, wetlands and natural or manmade streams that have any effect on downstream navigable waters — whether on public lands or private property.
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I can skip a 22 across my pond and hit a piece of baloney on the other side.
This was my project at deer camp this year.
Should I not poop outside ?
Do you have a septic system? Is it maintained to EPA standards or are you guilty of polluting the watershed?
Yes, groundwater will probably be next even if you don’t have so much as a puddle on your property.
I’m tempted to buy a place down in Louisiana just so I can watch the feds try to move the Cajuns off their land.
According to our DNR, the Greenies in our area take cellphone pics of things like oil stains on a driveway or froth in a river with current and run to the DNR to report someone for environmental crimes. Luckily the DNR sees this as extreme and ignores it. But it is indicative of the bot agenda.
The ‘progressive’ dominated Legislature in my state is now trying to get control of all privately drilled wells. Their aim is to declare all water a state resource and put meters on wells to bill owners for water used.
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE), The State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) are every bit as bad as the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), all of which are under the EPA’s thumb. I worked with/fought them all for 22yrs as a Farmer, and finally gave-up in 2011.
yup i was warning people about it in the 1990s. Different name but same idea.
Developers pay their environmentalists to do that.
Years ago, I kept getting annoyance calls about “septic tank enzymes”. I tried everything to make them stop, then got exasperated enough to try a different tactic.
Next time they called, I answered in a hillbilly voice and had a conversation with the salesman:
Wait; you said septic tank enzymes?
YES! Our special enzy...
Y’all mean they go in a septic tank?
YES! They prev...
We’uns ain’t got one a them fancy things; we jist run a pipe down to the crick.
(dead silence) ...click.
Never called back.
That was then. Now if I did that, the unamused feds would show up with an interagency SWAT team and a dozen warrants.
LOL! Roger that. Except the epa would show up with the “new, improved” officers of the US Police Force, the dhs. Seems like “they” show up for everything any more. They have to ensure that there’s no link to terrorism. You know, Christians, Tea party folks or former military persons.
That's exactly what happened.
My wife and I wanted to keep it in its pristine beauty. The wildlife was spectacular--the forest old growth.
My wife and I were vegetarians. We didn't allow hunting or fishing on the property.
I loved being there and watching the animals.
A family of deer lived in the forest.
One night I scattered dry cat food on the wooden deck and counted 30 raccoons and 1 possum who came to dine. It was unreal
There were skunks, armadillos, foxes--lots of birds--all sorts of fascinating animals!
I told those people exactly what I wanted to do: keep it beautiful and unspoiled forever--a sanctuary for the animals.
They didn't care. They weren't interested in that. They were interested in being Big Shots and bullies--in claiming as much control for themselves, the state, and their fellow quislings.
Some of the suggestions they gave me were risible.
Sure I made millions, but I wept when I heard the saws begin cutting down the forest.
I don't know where the animals went.
A hunting club was not far away.
The Left is decadence. Nothing good comes of it.
Not these developers. They wanted nothing to do with the “environmentalists.”
The feds don’t view it as “your” property. It’s all theirs, you’re just paying rent in the form of taxes and rest assured they will take it back if and when they want to.
Yup. They showed you didn’t they. Jerks!
Yep. It’s different for them, when the environmentalists are with federal regulators. Local commissioners’ meetings are often something else. It’s the way to compete in the new socialist business paradigm—not proper at all but they way it’s often done. It’s also one of the major reasons for the economic collapse.
Zoning laws against new, small manufacturing shops in rural areas should have been repealed. Same with the planning and building regulations.
Ah, I see that you were referring to your own experience with a state and am happy for you on how it worked out. In my area, local government folks are calling a trickle above 9,000 feet elevation a wetland in hope of getting more federal money somehow. That creek has never flooded anything of value (about 12-13 inches of precipitation a year, mostly ice blown from nearby peaks), and the land around it is nearly dry as a bone. Interestingly, lots on the short creek (only about four miles long) are owned by a few government employees and pensioners.
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