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Quoted: If I hadn't fixed it, the lake (10 Acre Feet of water) would have removed my neighbors house from his property. |
Did you file an environmental impact statement prior to rearranging "your" property. You might be guilty of a "wetlands violation" for destroying the habbitat of some poor defenseless tadpole, or worse yet destroying a democratically sponsored mosquito colony! |
It's a seasonal stream and falls outside those regulations, but the dam/levy was scrutinized by the dept of ecology, the state, the county and everybody else you can think of.
All I did was open the spillway to it's orginal capacity.
Luckily I am the new owner (since July) and didn't have to deal with the legal history of this lake... it was unbelievable. I get the liability going forward, which is why I opened it up.