Oh Noeze!>!>!L!!U!U@#!#$  

 

 

The EPA did something that Fox News tells me I need to be really mad about and that we must now abolish that evil gubmint thing they do  that's infringing my liberties!!!

 

Look, I know that folks can be biased, but dude, at least do a little research and try to see both sides.  Are there issues with administrative organizations?  Uh yeah.  It actually happens in the private industry to, if you'd pull your head out of your rear, you'd realize that...  At any rate, here's what the EPA says.

 

Oh and JJ appears to be wrong again!!  The wyoming man did not get a permit to build a dam...  Nice try, but you got got, once again.  :-)

Here's the EPA side of it...

 

<p style="font-family:'Droid Serif', serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);">This description sounds as though Johnson simply dug a hole and added water. In fact, the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA found that in order to create the pond, he constructed a dam on Six Mile Creek, a waterway deemed by the EPA to be a tributary of the Blacks Fork River, which in turn is a tributary of the Green River, which is a “navigable, interstate water of the United States.”

<p style="font-family:'Droid Serif', serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);">Building the dam constituted a “discharge of pollutants” into “waters of the United States,” according to the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, and thus required a permit that Johnson did not have, or seek. As with the Lucas case, EPA officials say that Johnson received multiple warnings before any enforcement actions were taken.

<p style="font-family:'Droid Serif', serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);">The EPA rules regarding discharging pollutants into waterways are based on a substantial body of evidence showing that water quality and flow in tributaries and wetlands can affect the water found downstream. In an extensive review of that evidence regarding connectivity of waterways, the EPA notes:

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