The fines that we are subject to for at least one portion of our operation are 37,000 dollars a day for each day out of compliance, and can go back as far as the day the law was passed. And they don't bother to tell you about being out of compliance for a couple years. So essentially, they have the power to bankrupt about anyone they decide they want to to make an example. That scares every one else into compliance or at least try to be compliant. Of course, there is an ex-employee that starts up a compliance company and for a "fee" can keep you out of harms way by filing all the paper work that is too complicated or requires an engineer to write a plan. Kind of sounds like legalized mafia to me and as long as you pay the "protection" money a person is safe.
I don't think we as pond owners want EPA to have jurisdiction over our BOW's.
Last edited by snrub; 05/31/14 07:28 AM.
