Posted on 07/13/2021 8:41:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
To finally determine a lasting definition of waterways that qualify for federal protection under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new water director says everyone with a stake in the issue will need to be engaged.
Radhika Fox recently spoke to The Associated Press about the Biden administration’s plan to rewrite the regulation, also called Waters of the United States. […] She was previously CEO of the conservation advocacy group U.S. Water Alliance and policy director at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. […]
“If we look back 50 years ago, what really prompted us to create the Clean Water Act is that literally rivers were on fire because pollution was so bad. To your question about how we intend to get to a durable definition, it’s really to do it in partnership. The one thing about Waters of the U.S. is nearly every water stakeholder has a stake in that definition. If we don’t reflect on that, and really understand the on-the-ground implementation challenges, I don’t think we can get to a durable definition.” …
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BOHICA
Back to suing farmers for plowing desert ground.
I believe the term is “navigable waterway.” That doesn’t include any of the little streams near my house.
Didn’t stop them last time.
> I believe the term is “navigable waterway.” That doesn’t include any of the little streams near my house. <
It just might. Trump stopped the EPA’s abuse of the term “navigable waterway”. For example, the EPA called any tributary to a river (no matter how small it was) a “navigable waterway.” Nope, said Trump.
But now but Biden is calling the shots. So anything is possible.
https://pacificlegal.org/trump-navigable-waters/
Curious: Has anyone taken a hard look at the water rights Bill Gates secured with his ‘farmland’ acquisitions?
It occurred to me at the time when I read about Gates being a major farmland holder, but I got distracted. I’ve never seen anyone address it...anywhere.
This ‘water’ thing will prompt a violent response much sooner than anything else they’re trying these days.
Just wait...they haven’t even gotten started yet.
#5. Look up the case of Rapanos and see if this applies to the “Navigable waters” cases. It would make any body of water that drained into a larger body (i.e. a swimming pool into a stream or lake etc) would be considered part of the “navigable waters” sphere and therefore under the jurisdiction of the EPA, perhaps the Corps of Engineers, NOAA etc.
I’m a little rusty on my “Clean Waters Act” and bastard children legislation/cases but Rapanos sticks in my mind.
Oh, as for the reference to waters/rivers being on fire, I can think of a couple including Boston Harbor, Joe Biden’s own state’s Delaware River, and the Cayuhoga River Basin system re Ohio/Pennsylvania region.
All your gutter downspout runoff are belong to us.
What you say!
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