[AT] Farm flooding update California - new info

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Feb 5 11:54:15 PST 2017


Grant, if a flood washed out an area such as you described in my area of
the world I really doubt that you or the land owner would be allowed to
fix it.  They would call it an act of God and proclaim it a wetland.  The 
state
would claim ownership or at least control of it and that would be the end of 
it.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Grant Brians
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 9:08 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Farm flooding update California - new info

Dave, government is only peripherally involved in the cause of the
damage. Because stream clearance has been prohibited without a lengthy
and expensive process of approval and the flood control district never
had taxing authority and no one wanted to run for a position it went
defunct. It exists on paper but not in fact. As a result I was working
with the county's flood agency before these floods to help get the
needed functions operational under their legal purview, but nothing
concrete had been done yet in the last 9 months I was pushing....
      No, this is not on land I own either, I just lease it. This makes
things more complicated yet. In short, I will be continuing to see if it
is possible to recover from the damage there or not. So in regards to
act of God or not it depends on who wants it to be or not be one. If it
were not so serious for me I would be laughing because it is truly funny
how things can get messed up when the community does not come together
to resolve issues.
               Grant Brians
On 2/4/2017 2:51 PM, Dave wrote:
> I can understand what you describe, Mike and agree that IF the government 
> was responsible for Grant’s situation then they should be held 
> accountable. But in Grant’s case it sounded like an act of God and I was 
> wondering if I had missed something. Thanks!
> Dave
>


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