CJ and Todd I hear you both. Things are out of hand. When this stuff starts something bad happens and the pendulum will swing back somewhat.
Let's just hope the "something bad" is short of full blown revolution! You are right that eventually the pendulum has to swing back, but man does it ever frustrate me to see the abuses that take place. Cecil's situation got me fired up. No reason for things like that to happen when a simple personal interaction would take care of everything in a peaceful way.
Yeah all they had to do was ask me and i would have said no problem. If anything I was interested in how the process works as I'm a consumate science geek.
On another note the highway department doesn't like me discharging into the highway ditch from the big pond. If I'm running the well 24/7 into the trout pond, that overflows into the big pond it dumps into the ditch 24/7.
As far as I can tell there is no law against it but they aren't happy with it. It does no harm, and in fact before the big pond and overflow was put in, there were erosion issues. Putting the pond in took care of that.
I pay ditch taxes which should mean something. However if I get my wish and move the trout indoors with a recirculating system their won't be any overflow. And I'll be using much, much less well water.