Posted on 07/10/2010 11:42:41 AM PDT by Outside da Box
Film buffs might recognize the Los Angeles River as the gigantic concrete gutter used for car chases in "Grease," "Terminator 2" and other movies.
But the river is something else for U.S. EPA: "a traditional navigable water."
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's declaration of the cement-lined channel today as "navigable" is aimed at allowing her agency to enforce Clean Water Act protections throughout the river's 834-square-mile watershed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If LA doesn’t sue, they’re farther gone than I thought.
Thanks for those pictures! I happen to like LA a lot, despite its many flaws.
They also said the move shows that Western rivers, despite their propensity to run dry because they are overtapped for irrigation and drinking supplies...
Sorry, but irrigation and drinking supplies are kind of necessary. If they want to do this for the recreational benefit of the folks in LA, how about coming through with a billion dollars for desalination plants? Israel runs on them.
But the whole objective of Obama is to destroy the US. He wants to use these restrictions to destroy the California agricultural industry. This actually started under Bush, whose EPA had gotten out of hand, and now it's rolling on its own.
You could take a Navigator down there 
Sorry, but irrigation and drinking supplies are kind of necessary. If they want to do this for the recreational benefit of the folks in LA, how about coming through with a billion dollars for desalination plants? Israel runs on them.
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Actually that would be a win/win/win ,, build nuke power plants for electric power during the daytime , run desalinization off of the excess power at night , and reduce or eliminate the old filthy power plants that have purposely not been upgraded in decades because an upgrade would mean making the entire powerplant compliant with todays regs (yes the EPA in a backhanded way is creating pollution). It might even spawn some new industry that is not feasible now ,, aluminum and iron production , selling salt (that super trendy “sea salt”) , creating chlorine and other salt products...
Well, put her in a boat and see if she floats.
Navigable by cars and other motor vehicles, but not by boat except during heavy rainstorms.
Add this to the EPA’s intention to regulate so called ‘greenhouse gases’ and it becomes clear that the EPA must be stopped.
No water, not navigable by canoe.
There they go again. Not a usable brain in sight.
Kinda cool looking in a futuristic dystopian way.
Sounds good to me. But it might work and completely transform the situation, so we’ll never do it.
Obama really isn’t interested in improving anything in America for Americans, and I think he thrives on the negative, anti-technological mindset.
Brew 302 use to get its water out of the L.A. wash.
Good stuff huh?
NOt quite like those who use Rocky Mountain spring water now is it?
If you consider turds as vessels, then I guess the waters are navigable.
Brew 302? There used to be a Brew 102 in the 1960’s that tasted like effluent from a camel dung factory. Is that the same brewery?
“The EPA has been deeming rain ditches as navigable waterways for decades...”
And also tiled drainage ditches no where near a navigable waterway. See Rapanos v US. The EPA developed a new regulation for “transient water molecules” that might be evaporated by the sun and fall as rain into a navigable waterway. The federal district judge laughed these bozos out of court, but the 6th appeals court sided with the EPA commies.
That case happened under Bush II. There was enough evidence of EPA misconduct and criminality to hang every SOB at the EPA. But our gutless RINO congress refused to issue even a mild rebuke of the EPA’s criminal actions.
The EPA can trace its philosophical genesis to Hitler’s naturschutz reich. Republicans warned that idiot RINO Nixon that signing the EPA into existence would destroy property rights.
the EPA MUST be un-funded.
you got it.
Can’t believe it isn’t still pumping out its swill.
It is navigable. On foot, roller skates, bicycles, autos, etc.
Back in my Coast Guard days in the 80s, for pollution enforcement purposes, navigable meant that if you could float a Popsicle stick on it, it was navigable.
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