Robinson, I did ask about fish farming. I was told that it does not exempt me on the basis of agriculture. I wasn't smart enough to ask if it gave me an exemption based on something else.
Dave, I like your suggestion, and I have already placed a call to follow up. I don't think section 1 really contradicts the rest. It is really saying that if your creek exits your land and enters my land at point X, you can't divert it and send it out somewhere else. You wouldn't want your neighbor upstraem to do that, would you?
BD, I won't say you are wrong, but locally the ACoE owns and uses small planes to look for unauthorized activity. They recently issued a stop work order on a guy building a pond and confiscated the contractors equipment for not having a 404 permit. If that isn't going out to get people, I don't know what is.
