> 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/
#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.