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  what they do not tell you

  we wanted to develop housing after Katrina on our thirty acres for people who needed to move off the edge of hurricane land and therefore off the real wetlands. But the corp of engineers needs a reason to exist.  We are at least 60 miles north from areas that would be described as wetlands.(we are northwest of New Orleans closer to the Mississippi border) After paying a consultant $4000 who could not find any place that one low strip on my property connects to the creek (which runs through part of my property and then away from the property away from the strip).  The strip is actually on the opposite side of my property from the creek.  It connects nowhere.  They said "well it goes over here and then it goes under this road (no culverts there) and then it goes to the creek.   To do this it would have to go through my neighbors houses.  When I told them that it did not empty into the creek they said it had to do so somewhere. Somewhere- over the rainbow!  I followed all possible avenues and took pictures and begged them to come out and take a physical look.  They refused. Then they drew the wetland line all the way through my home and the 40 foot pecan trees that are there.  All this they did from an aerial infrared photograph from 1998.  They have refused to come out and physically verify this with me.  They took 10 acres of my land for nothing.  It will never have fish or any kind of wildlife on it because it does not hold water long enough. It is just a low strip that during the worst rains will hold water and then dry up. The 2006 ruling should have fixed problems like this and like the wetlands in Florida.  They have ruined me and have not treated wetlands fairly. IF THEY WOULD QUIT MESSING WITH IMAGINARY WETLANDS AND DEAL WITH REAL WETLANDS WE MIGHT GET SOMEWHERE!On Lag in water-pollution enforcement traced to muddled court decision posted 1 year, 3 months ago 3 Responses