I and mentioned on a thread that the Army Corps of Engineers was doing a survey on a little drainage ditch on my rural east county easement. It started because a belligerent neighbor claimed it was a vernal pond and put up barriers to protect it. He claimed that the Army Corp of Engineers had designated it a wetland. It’s just a ditch with a manmade berm in it that hold rain water for a little while after it rains. The Amry COrps had never heard of him or this ditch , it was on no register and nothing like it in the county is on any register of any kind of Jurisdiction in the County.
Anyway. ARCE was not big enough for the job of ruling whether this was “Waters of the United States”. Turns out they need to bring the EPA in on it too! I guess they don’t have really important planet , shipping related , or life saving stuff to do?
As I mentioned in the other post on this topic there must be hundreds of thousands if not millions of little erosion features like the one under scrutiny in San Diego County alone. If you put dirt on the low end of these ditches or anywhere along them for that matter at that point there would be standing water at times . Under no other circumstances would water be standing . It would only be running at a trickle during and for a few minutes after a strong rain fall. This is not a farming, manufacturing or place of any kind of business whatsoever that I am talking about.
Does that make them unconstitutional , I don’t know. But it makes them corrupt.
THis is the way these land and resource management groups do corruption the find someone having an obstacle or need that is blocked or can be block and they exploit it, just like the mordida system while they ignore many bigger things that can’t be exploited and meanwhile toxicity in the environment rolls on unchecked,people die, because those thing are not the overriding goal funding and growing the organization is .
