Red van and light on the top and they were dressed in reflective vests. They were snooping around the pond overflow that dumps into the ditch, looked over the pond, and were looking over the ditch.
I figured they were highway department employees but there were no markings on the van. When I called my contact at the highway department (nice guy and easy to work with) he had no idea who they were.
Background: I have four ponds on the property. A well dumps about 41 gpms of well water into a trout pond on the highest point of the property. That overflows into a second pond which overflows underground into the last pond, which is close to the highway. What doesn't seep out of the ponds or evaporates ends up in the highway ditch. I'd say about 20 gpms.
As far as I know I am not violating any laws and I do pay ditch taxes. But this makes me nervous. They didn't have any no interest in coming up to the house and asking any questions.
Some do gooder apparently turned me into the Indiana Water division last year because they thought I was pumping empty the aquifer. (We can pump up to 2000 gpms in some places here). The guy that called me from the division was friendly, and as soon as he found out I was pumping out less than 70 gpms he wasn't interested.
I don't have the funds nor the inclination to fight this in court if it came to that.
Thoughts?
