Farmers drained their lands with ditches and they called ditches wetlands.....If there was a puddle here and a puddle there...with a significent space in between....they joined it all together and called it a wetland....No creek running through those puddles.
And flood plains....they went nuts with those maps, too.
This is a real win for homeowners.
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It COULD be. But, cities like Austin lose these Supreme Court battles and go home with their tail between their legs. Then, over the next year or two, they move a few phrases, change some pronunciation, add a phrase or two and then get their Council to rubber stamp a NEW law that pursues the same objective.
It get’s slammed in the courts again and the process starts all over again. I could tell you first hand horror stories of litigating with Austin but it would take a book. I once won 3 jury trials (over several years) over the same issue in their Environmental Court. If I had lost, fines could have and would have been hundreds of thousands of dollars. The years old case finally settled for a hundred bucks.
This is a real win for homeowners. Some of the wetland maps were insane...specifically designating man made ponds as wetlands.
Farmers drained their lands with ditches and they called ditches wetlands.....If there was a puddle here and a puddle there...with a significent space in between....they joined it all together and called it a wetland....No creek running through those puddles.
And flood plains....they went nuts with those maps, too.
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At the top of the list of anti-American jackbooted thugs, and a major reason every single voter with a stream, pond, well, irrigation system, or rainwater usage system should be
pleading with relatives neighbors, and total strangers to vote for President Donald Trump in the coming election.
The feds are pushing utter propaganda on wetlands regularly on the radio.
Their statements in the ads are factually incorrect, but the ugly irony is that they wield their position as a weapon only against private landowners.
The entire Willamette Valley technically is a wetland, yet the CWA is only rolled out against landowners in specific battles such as this one which made it to SCOTUS.
And let’s not talk about all the areas now safely behind dikes bordering the entire Mississippi... /s
Indeed. It is a major curtailment of the EPAs rogue power.(The EPA is freakng out of control)
Here's a direct link to the decision itself:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf