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| The proposed mall developer next to my farm at Ames and his engineers didn't believe the amount of water they are going to see in the spring. The want to replace a smooth clay tile mutual main with corrugated tile which will back up the water even more than the undersized main does now. But whether their ground is wetland, cropped wetland, has standing water half the summer or is a COE flood plain, they can chop it all up and build. Local ordnance may require them to plan for surface water catch basins but only for their paved and built over areas. Not for the 1600 acres that drain onto their patch.
But since they aren't going to apply for farm program payments, they could enlarge that main (dating from 1907) with running afoul of the swampbuster law. Grump.
Gerald J. | |
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Anyone get busted for sodbusting?
