Meadowlark, someone IS telling you that you can't build a pond on your own property without interfering with anyone else. You just don't know it. That's exactly what I am trying to tell you and everyone else here. Eastland thinks that some Texas law gives him some exemption over the federal Army Corps of Engineers. It doesn't. In fact, there is a statute in Georgia's code that says if you own both sides of a creek, you CAN NOT and SHALL NOT be denied permission to exercise your riparian right to build a pond on it. My lawyer and I fought a battle based on this code and lost. Federal law takes presidence.
Not that it matters, Eastland, but my property slopes from side to side. The only logical and practical place to build a pond is at the bottom of the slope, in the creek. No wetland is involved or has even been discussed with the Corps. It bothers me that you think it is OK for the ACoE to tell me I can't build a pond on my property because of the lay of the land, but you are, as I am, entitled to your own opinion.
