12-05-2012, 06:59 AM
Deja Vu....... Heads up - If you see a fish and wildlife truck onsite - its too late for negotiation.
Our issue with them had to do with long entrenched surface water issues in a water taking rights setting - higher on the list me thinks.
First thing the federal biologists wanted to see was waste disposal.
Next the biologists started looking for endangered toads - lacking the discovery of same, the area is now to be preserved as suitable habitat by code. Then they called the botanists and hydrologists..out here would they call an iwi guy as well?
........ it was 5 years in the making and numerous committees / expensive studies before we gained the holy grail of " compliance "
Every one seemingly getting a turn at water issues nationwide, this decade is the way it reads to me.
Our issue with them had to do with long entrenched surface water issues in a water taking rights setting - higher on the list me thinks.
First thing the federal biologists wanted to see was waste disposal.
Next the biologists started looking for endangered toads - lacking the discovery of same, the area is now to be preserved as suitable habitat by code. Then they called the botanists and hydrologists..out here would they call an iwi guy as well?
........ it was 5 years in the making and numerous committees / expensive studies before we gained the holy grail of " compliance "
Every one seemingly getting a turn at water issues nationwide, this decade is the way it reads to me.