I am afraid what is happening here is a person, while taking due diligence, gets squeezed between state and federal regulations. The EPA is very heavy handed with water issues on private property. The most common thing seems to be declaring land to be wetlands when it isn't. Once declared it is really hard to get reversed. It isn't just an EPA problem. There are plenty of local agencies that do the same thing.
Sounds like the EPA is hanging this on the clean water act. Wish the article would explain exactly how that applies to this case.
If only they would hang themselves on the clean water act, after what they did recently.
They have made so many laws, regulations and rules that they truly are the comrades of Beria who said to Stalin: “You bring me the man, I’ll find you the crime.”
That is where we are, in my opinion. And I don’t believe it is unintentional, either.