Posted on 09/18/2015 4:27:00 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--snip-- In a January 2014 violation notice, the agency said Mr. Johnson had violated the Clean Water Act by digging out Six Mile Creek and dumping in tons of river rocks without getting necessary federal permits. The agency ordered him to take steps to restore the creek under the supervision of environmental officials, or face accumulating fines of as much as $37,500 a day.
Mr. Johnson refused.
He argued that he had gotten full approvals from Wyoming officials, and said the federal government had no business using national water laws to make decisions about the creek that meanders through the family’s eight-acre property. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Katie, had spent $50,000 — most of their savings, they said — to create the pond to water their 10 head of cattle and four horses. Dismantling it now would be ruinously expensive and destroy what has become a tiny oasis for birds and wildlife, they said.
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Ping!
I nominate the EPA as the first agency to be abolished, closely followed by the IRS and the Dept of Education.
And BLM had better take notice.
Mr. Johnson need only point the EPA officials to the great job they did with the Colorado mine water.
An example of the tyranny we can expect from a Marxist third term.
My question is, how did this land owner come up on the “radar” ?
What got his name into the attention of the “powers that be”, whether local, state, or federal?
There’s more to this story.....
He needs a go fund me campaign to replace his cattle and buy another pony or two.
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