The question is- would they have granted to permits? Is the dike a GOOD THING?
THEN JUST GRANT THEM~!!!
But to make him tear it down and put it back up again would be STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID
Maybe a fine for not filing the permits FIRST... but even that could be waived if expediency was necessary.
Bureaucracy works at a snails pace- and his farm would have been washed downstream by the time they got around to it.
A bureaucracy , any bureaucracy is designed to perpetuate itself ,
and then they design more bureaus to confuse the masses ..
ad infinitum
A bureaucracy , any bureaucracy is designed to perpetuate itself ,
and then they design more bureaus to confuse the masses ..
ad infinitum
here’s the pathetic thing. The guy did this to protect both the river and his land from erosion which was filling the river with silt. I suspect the guy is going to lose his farm over this.
“Case said he did that to stop the river from cutting into farm fields he owns along the river. The river in previous years had washed away a 100-foot-by-800-foot section of the land, and he did not want to see more go downstream, he said.
Case hauled in at least 40 tractor-trailer loads of rock that was dropped next to the river, he said. He said each truckload held 20 to 25 cubic yards , so the dumped rock totals about 800 to 1,000 cubic yards of material. He then had dirt from the field added to fortify the dike.
Case contends that by adding the rock, he is actually improving the quality of the water in the North Santiam by stopping erosion.”