This is in fact one of my hot button issues. As I said, I lived on a
mountain side that fed the water supply to the thousands of people in the
area. It was a hassle working around the issue of where we could put our
septic system but entirely understandable and I was more than willing to do
my part. If the bath water you are washing the baby in is dirty, you throw
out the bath water NOT the baby. Any system of law is going to have
injustices. You have to fix it, not give up on it.

Anything once it turns into a bureaucracy develops serious flaws. The idea
behind the laws is correct - if we don't take care of the earth, we in the
end will be the ones to suffer most. It is the implementation that has a
problem. Part of it is that people who end up being the ones that hold the
power either they don't care, they don't have the leeway or they don't have
the knowledge to make these things work. It is critical that we protect our
wetlands from human development. The majority of sea life begins in
estuaries. Our water is purified going through wetlands. It is one of the
riches habitats on the earth. Don't blame the protection of what all of us
need because of those making and implementing the laws.

I don't believe in public religious discussions but since this
administration is insisting on putting religion as something that belongs in
public I will say this. What most amazes me is those who claim to be
"people of G~d" who are happy to take a piece of art work of G~d and
graffiti it and putting their own creations above the worth of those of G~d.

As I said - a hotbutton topic for me so this is the last I will say on it.
DKat

"Offbreed" wrote in message
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D Kat wrote:

If you have an intake pipe, are you not diverting water as well? I
don't
know how it is with this administration (have the rescinded all
environmental protections yet?) but at one time you had to go through
the
EPA if you even thought about such things. DKat

Water rights are state jurisdiction, water channel changes, such as
making a pond under the described conditions is Army Corps of Engineers.

Considering that your lawn can be declared "wetlands" and under Army
Corps of Engineers jurisdiction as "Navigatable waterways" if rain or
melting snow causes the soil to be saturated, I certainly hope some of
the environmental protections get tossed out.

BTW, farmers have lost control of their fields, some under cultivation
for many years, because the soil was saturated during the spring. It's
little stretch to apply the same to lawns. (I'm still gloating about
the trapping laws mess in Washington State. The yuppies cannot trap
gophers or moles messing up their lawns, because of a law *they*
shoved down the throats of the farmers and trappers. The rural people
are refusing to budge on allowing a partial repeal unless it all goes.
They have the numbers to block it, when combined with the loony left.)

Laws and regulations have no relationship to sanity, nor do they need
to actually accomplish their proported purpose.

As an example, a farmer was notified he could not work his fields any
more, because an endangered kangaroo rat lived in those fields. He
stopped working them, the brush grew up and changed the habitat, and
the rats died out. They cannot survive in thick brush, and that
farmer's field was the only habitat for them in the area. Another
species a little closer to extinction due to foolishly written or
enforced laws.

Excuse me, but you punched one of my "hot buttons". I won't go into a
zinc mine sterilizing a river in Tennessee, or British Petroleum
getting a special deal on oil in the Elk Hills (an environmentally
sensitive area in SoCal), as both involve a prior administration.