The EPA and corps of enginners already regulates small streams, tributaries, and wetlands, in my state. How is this anything new?
As a fish farmer I have limits on waste discharge from my farm, and I sure can't dig up wetlands.
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"The new rules would have forced landowners to get a permit if they took steps that would pollute or destroy the regulated waters connected to larger bodies of water downstream."
Sounds like a good thing to me. People discharge raw sewage into the local river and we have feed lots on a lake inlets. The State is slow to respond due to the tremendous power of the Farm Bureau here.
Maybe your a farmer and want to fertilize the fields around next to a pond/ditch or maybe you need to get a bloom started and want to fertilize your pond. How about treating FA or pond weeds with chemicals.
I'm sure the EPA would be happy to give you a permit...or not...for a small fee.
Those of us in the free states are aghast that anyone could see this as a good thing.
I'm not seeing your specific concerns in what I've read.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
