In his first post Jersey said "I can't claim ignorance anymore".
Up until a year ago I was blissfully ignorant myself. My aquaintenance with the ACoE ended ok.
But what and eye opener.
The NRCS has absouletly nothing to do with this, and frankly they don't want anything to do with it. I invited the NRCS to come out to make a determination on wether an old ox bow was a wetland, they declined (it was a wetland the ACoE said).
So heres an old ditch (cut off from the main stream years ago) cutting this farmers field into two pieces. He can not fill in this ditch (illegal). Well he could legally if he went through the 404 process, got it ok'd and then built a wetland area that had roughly twice the acreage of that old ditch.
The old ditch is still there, did get to add a field entrance through it legally.
Why did I ask to start with? Someone involved told me I could go to jail if I didn't. Kind of figured the ACoE was going to be notified, either by me, or after the job was done.
