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Posted on 04/12/2013 5:47:44 AM PDT by SJackson
Lock and load people.
We had our chance last year, and somehow failed to take advantage of it.
I weep for the fate of our country.
But we must keep plugging away, anyway. Perhaps our grreat-great-grandchildren will see the fruits of our labor.
http://www.neorsd.org/I_Library.php?a=download_file&LIBRARY_RECORD_ID=5658
It is for real in many areas....
Besides deers running all over causing trouble we got traffic jams crowded schools endless waves of higher taxes and the new Balkinized citizens (Dems) here go for it.
I always wondered where were the envirnementists during this pave over of the county.
I proposed a development tax here 15 years ago to pay for all the new required and demanded schools and roadwork to support it INSTEAD of raising MY taxes endlessly, but development helps Dems HERE so they raised mine instead.
We’re using a thimble to bale water in a hurricane at this point. I’m genuinely fearful that we are heading into an era of Soviet-style government where the people are disarmed and at the whims of corrupt politicians from the top down. I pray I’m wrong.
The American public will never realize that this is just another way of taxing what leftists hate the most: private property.
We needed it big time.
They did this in my neighborhood, as part of a storm sewer “tax,” which the city decided to charge via a utility bill, according to our “impervious surface area.”
Funny thing is, we live on the edge of town and have no storm sewers. Everybody’s rain eventually finds its way into my pond, and then follows it’s course downstream.
That was the one time I fought city hall and won. I simply refused to pay the “utility bill.” I “cancelled” my service- told them to “cut me off.” The city man eventually came to my house to reason with me. He was speechless when I asked him to please show me my storm sewer.
After I got a letter saying my charges would show up in my property taxes, I sent them a letter threatening to sue the city. There was already precedent in our state that people could not be forced to pay for utilities they have not received. The only lawyer on the town council agreed with me, and the bills ceased, nor were the charges ever added to my property tax.
That’s how metropolitan sewer districts determine fees charged to properties — that and water useage per household.
Can you collect it in rain barrels, and sell it back to Gov McIdiot? I have billion gallon retention ponds on the ol’ Farm, which have filled and overflowed only 3x in 22yrs.
PA’s forumla was 3 sqft hard surface for every 1 cuft retention/ run-off. That’s changed to 3-to-2 now. Very, very expensive to build those things, and they waste a huge amount of usable growing acreage, too.
27 government vehicles counted on roads of one small section of one county in e central oklahoma. Most pickups with four wheelers, all monitoring the runoff from pastures “protecting” the lower illinois river to improve the trout fishery? There never has been a native trout fishery there.... never will be.
This is not a local thing. The EPA through the Clean Water Act is requiring it. The are requiring rainwater to be processed in water treatment plants (this is after it has fallen and soaked up dirt, chemicals, etc after running towards the closest river). I have seen it being talked about in several states and large cities.
I don’t know what the deadline dates are for the implementation, but if it is like past CWA initiatives, it will be phased in over 5 or 10 years starting with the large cities and working down from there. Eventually it will be the law of the land.
They get us for that here: $4.30/month for "my" place.
Someone’s going to get rich selling brick pavers so people can replace their impervious driveways with bricks that allow drainage... it also increases the allowable density for new construction as the roads won’t be counted against the developer... in my area 50% of the land area of each lot must be able to absorb water.
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