Holy **** some of your are living in wonderland. Telling yourself that
your are actually helping everyone out downstream by draining every acre
of land within three days of snow melt, or at the very least not causing
any harm. You can't tell me when there is guys digging ditches ten feet
deep with a track hoe that that isn't adding to the problems with
excessive rainfall.
I know and understand that we need to drain our land to get onto it too
farm. I would argue though that the problem is that what took three weeks
to a couple months to drain a decade ago is now being drained in a week
with all the ditching that is going on. And the infrastructure down
stream cannot handle the extremes volumes of water being forced upon it in
such a short period of time. Now I know that the majority of this is
coming from extreme excess snowfall and rain, but we are just exasperating
the problem instead of mitigating it. Now if the government had a brain,
with insight and vision they would fix the infrastructure to handle and
properly manage the flow, with creating outflows on some lakes, new
channels, etc... Perhaps they could have spent the disaster assistance
money on this instead of giving it to farmers to fix up their yards who
built it in a slough hole.
There is a lot of blame to go around with all this water mess, and a lot
of it rests on the farmers and govt regulation, but most is due to mother
nature. When some people had the vision and foresight to build ditches in
the 80's and 90's they where fought every step of the way be those who
where to cheap to pay the small increase in taxes to the c&d etc..., and
now everyone is paying for the small mindedness of some. The costs have
sky rocketed and are now even impossible due to increased govt regulation.
I am not against ditching by any means. I just think we should use common
sense and not push every bush and drain every slough/lake that has been
around for a century. If we can' at least use some common sense ourselves
the govt will force it upon us and then we will all lose.
your are actually helping everyone out downstream by draining every acre
of land within three days of snow melt, or at the very least not causing
any harm. You can't tell me when there is guys digging ditches ten feet
deep with a track hoe that that isn't adding to the problems with
excessive rainfall.
I know and understand that we need to drain our land to get onto it too
farm. I would argue though that the problem is that what took three weeks
to a couple months to drain a decade ago is now being drained in a week
with all the ditching that is going on. And the infrastructure down
stream cannot handle the extremes volumes of water being forced upon it in
such a short period of time. Now I know that the majority of this is
coming from extreme excess snowfall and rain, but we are just exasperating
the problem instead of mitigating it. Now if the government had a brain,
with insight and vision they would fix the infrastructure to handle and
properly manage the flow, with creating outflows on some lakes, new
channels, etc... Perhaps they could have spent the disaster assistance
money on this instead of giving it to farmers to fix up their yards who
built it in a slough hole.
There is a lot of blame to go around with all this water mess, and a lot
of it rests on the farmers and govt regulation, but most is due to mother
nature. When some people had the vision and foresight to build ditches in
the 80's and 90's they where fought every step of the way be those who
where to cheap to pay the small increase in taxes to the c&d etc..., and
now everyone is paying for the small mindedness of some. The costs have
sky rocketed and are now even impossible due to increased govt regulation.
I am not against ditching by any means. I just think we should use common
sense and not push every bush and drain every slough/lake that has been
around for a century. If we can' at least use some common sense ourselves
the govt will force it upon us and then we will all lose.
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