Posted on 03/26/2014 5:21:47 AM PDT by rktman
The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a way to execute one of the biggest land grabs by the federal government ever perpetrated on the American public. On Tuesday, the EPA proposed a change to the Clean Water Act so that the EPA would have the power to regulate temporary wetlands and waterways.
The land grab engendered tremendous concern from members of the GOP trying to protect private property; they noted that the EPA would gain power over seasonal ponds, streams and ditches.
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Nixon should have been impeached for bringing this un-American agency into existence. The EPA is the best argument for the danger of the federal government having any access to private property….the old “nose of the camel” writ large.
bfl
The definition of wetlands is getting so broad it almost includes swimming pools.
politics are local....
My neighborhood is a karst region. That is there are collapsed caverns that become sink holes. The sinks drain to the still existing caves that drain under ground to the river.
Then comes one neighborhood sink owner that hires a contrctor to clean and reseed the lawn. Prt of that effort involved dozing the saplings and sink sides. Dirt and debris were deposited at the bottom, clogging the drain. The sink is now a substantial pond. It never goes away and after the winter rains, is now pretty deep.
We have a few deer that come out all over the neighborhood at night. Days are spent in any one of several wooded sinks. They come to the new pond to drink.
The neighbor created a wetland
Well, to be fair, not the pool itself, just all the splash area around it.
And that includes kiddie pools as well.
That should have been a huge positive that everyone including the gov’t officials would have lauded.
Instead they use it as an excuse to make your own land unusable.
Try mining coal on land you own without federal approval...
So if my big dog Zeke pees on the patio does that become a “temporary wetlands” Effing ridiculous.
Was there ever an effort to shut down the EPA? There’s nothing Constitutional about them at all.
Nixon merely consolidated what already existed, Congress brought it into being.
Your neighbor’s “wetland” might just disappear one day.
The section of the Constitution that is now being worked on is Section 8. Land use ordinances.
And while I have yet to see the finished work, I do know that it makes all land use ordinances local to the govt entity in which the land resides. the only land the Republic will have control over is land that it owns. For the most part land in a city will have land ordinances that are voted on by the people of that municipality, same with land in the county.
As it, the proposed Constitution, is completed it is posted on www.MaineTV.net
Lucky for Maine that the gubmint doesn’t own as much land as, say here in NV. That being about 85%. That number was somehow written in for NV to become a state. Weird huh?
So, after your secession vote, the fedgov will simply ignore it and continue to attempt to enforce federal law.
What happens then?
You know and I know that they aren’t just going to let states secede and get out from under their dictates.
I don’t think so. If you were to approach the sink from underground, you would encounter break down and be stopped or have a difficult time picking your way through or around .
The danger is on the higher ground connecting the sinks. The concealed underground passages have not yet broken down.
Former caver : )
What’s your water doin in Boss Keen’s ditch? And what’s your yard doin on boss Keen’s property?
I’m a bit dense this AM - I don’t understand your post.
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