jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 6, 2016 19:48:46 GMT -5
Silt removal job complete. Final burning of alders and willows. Long week. Pond upstream was cleaned out too.  |
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Post by Rockoonz on Jan 6, 2016 23:38:47 GMT -5
Yes state to state regulations seem to be all over the board. Here it is destroy one acre of wet land you have to create two. Either that or donate to a fund where they create and reclaim wetlands. The county northwest of me is 90 some percent wetland and they refuse of obvious reasons to enforce it there. How much wetland remediation is required around here largely depends on whether the general contractor of the project is a friend or relative of a county commissioner. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 7, 2016 2:12:33 GMT -5
Lots of politics in the wetland biz. Developers get away with murder. The small contractors get fined for damage. Govt. road projects, developers and large contractors slipping money do not. The silted pond in this post was filled up in one year from a state road project a half a mile upstream about 2 years ago. It never had silt issues 20 years prior. Me and two upstream neighbors have done extensive work for years along this creek and never silted it. Check out this same creek downstream. It is a good thing that I had that silt pond in place or this creek would be a muddy mess thanks to the govt. road project. Yes, I will remove the silt. And not even considering a permit. The other creek on the property got silted by upstream timber operations. Again, I had to clean out the silt pond on that creek too.   |
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Post by toiv0 on Jan 7, 2016 6:10:26 GMT -5
Common sense sometimes trump rigid regulations and an inept person overseeing the regs.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 7, 2016 6:53:15 GMT -5
Common sense sometimes trump rigid regulations and an inept person overseeing the regs. The silt ponds were installed 25 years ago figuring I would silt the creek up doing my AG biz. All three silt ponds were also diversion ponds to catch clean creek water for gravity fed irrigation. I was always careful about silt and never had any mishaps. And that clean water is my livelihood so I was concerned. Never can tell what the next guy is going to do upstream. I can say that the road people and the timber people did not care one bit about silt. Various constructed wetlands that receive about all silt from mine and neighboring farms. I never got permits to do any of this as it was not required at the time. Dams over 8 feet in height required permits at that time. And diverting creeks over 100,000 gallons per day required permits at that time. Winter 2015 on left, summer 2000 on right, from county 'policing map system'   |
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