Re: Supreme Court to consider cutting wetlands protection

And I know a home construction site where a 250,000 gallon per day
(measured) spring which fed a 5 acre wetland (water running everywhere
through spongy ground) was bulldozed over with mounds of glacial till,
because the ACE said it wasn't a wetland. The water drained off the
property along a ditch all year round. Uphill from this spring, on the
same property were 6 wet weatherr springs along a fall line, and 30
acre springbottom pond which was drained, and a big mound of dirt
dumped in the pond.. The entire property is being graded and built
upon as we speak-- instead of the developer channelizing the
groundwater, and putting in a detention pond, and doing proper
groundwater mitigation, there are going to be about 40 or 50 really
****ed off homeowners of $300,000 homes within the year. The county
P&Z wouldn't do anything because ACE said it 'wasn't a wetland' even
though an engineer was personally shown the year round wet ditch which
led to a creek and into the Mississippi (within 4 miles) and was given
court sworn affidavits from local residents that this area was wet year
round (sometimes the high water blocked the road into their homes
further up the hill).

The right people apparently got paid off, and the poor suckers who buy
those homes (being constructed with basements, btw) are going to be
SOL. And there isn't a darned thing anyone can/will do about it. Yeah,
we went the political route too-- just a lot of tongue-clucking and no
action.

Hey, this is America. We do things cheap, stupid and short-sightedly.
Sorry, I don't agree with you on this. There are only two reasons
people are forced to go the political route and things like this end up
in the Supreme Court, with justices, not engineers, ruling on things
of which they know very little--utter lack of ethics on the part of
developers, and greed.

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