Posted by Frank Postma (216.177.15.150) on September 25, 2002 at 09:02:10:
In Reply to: water withdrawal from a stream posted by paul on September 24, 2002 at 09:05:16:
: Our Commission has been told a landscapeer has been pumping water from a small perennial stream to fill his hydroseeder tank. Could this be considered an impact to land under water? How have other commissions dealt with this issue?
: We have had the same problem. We issued an enforcement order to the contractor under prevention of pollution interest of the act. The gentleman we hit had a Env. Officer buddy who questioned our authority to do so, but as an EO is a civil statute we more than met the standard. We have since enacted a moratorium on all withdrawals and now require that contractors buy water from the water department.