“Significant nexus” with navigable waters.

[Assembler]

A “significant nexus” was defined by Justice Kennedy as wetlands that “either alone or in combination with similarly situated [wet]lands in the region, significantly affect the chemical, physical or biological integrity of other covered waters more readily understood as navigable.”Mar 26, 2014

What in the Wetlands? Exposing the absurdity of EPA overreach
https://palmettopromise.org/wetland...TIxCUB9XQ7R3UILSTAIC0eM7zO4VQhBxoChFcQAvD_BwE
Simply this: the scope of the federal government’s power over your property is directly related to the definition of “significant nexus.”
If “significant nexus” means the federal government has the power to regulate all water that eventually flows into a navigable river, whether on the surface or underground, then the American people are legally liable for “interrupting” even the smallest area of saturated ground! The late Justice Scalia, who wrote the plurality decision for the court, summed up the reach of federal power the following way:
“The EPA has interpreted their jurisdiction to cover 270-to-300 million acres of swampy lands in the US — including half of Alaska and an area the size of California in the lower 48 states. The EPA has also asserted jurisdiction over virtually any parcel of land containing a channel or conduit — whether man-made or natural, broad or narrow, permanent or ephemeral — through which rainwater or drainage may occasionally or intermittently flow. On this view, the federally regulated “waters of the US” include storm drains, roadside ditches, ripples of sand in the desert that may contain water once a year, and lands that are covered by floodwaters every 100 years. Because they include the land containing storm sewers and desert washes, the statutory “waters of the United States” engulf entire cities and immense arid wastelands. In fact, the entire land area of the US lies in some drainage basin, and an endless network of visible channels furrows the entire surface, containing water ephemerally wherever the rain falls.

 

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[Goldfinger450]

Yes it IS an over reach, the Laws and the power of the EPA and any other "Organization" in the fedgov. seem to ALL go against the US Constitution in their Actual Abuse of citizens, It Must be stopped. Scalia, most won't say it but he was running with the bad crowd and That is what got him Murdered, Podesta's ranch.

 

[russau]

I see them getting by with this BECAUSE of our NOT getting involved with politics OR atleast keeping a eye on them CONSTANTLY ! Our gubermint gets by with this because we are to lazy or to occupied with our everyday business to be bothered. It's the ole "let somebody else do it for me"! And theses socalled "representatives" of our's know this and that's how they get by with it! Untill then , it'll be the same ole thing!

 

[Assembler]

Thank you everyone for your inputs here. Don't think most people are aware of this thus the reason for posting.

 

[Assembler]

Do you think there is a “Significant nexus” with navigable waters if all the waters are moved to get to the "Mineral deposit" rock?
It has happened in history that is for sure. History can repeat it self.

 

[Goldwasher]

It didn't stick...so where is the over reach?

WOTUS was put on hold

 

[Assembler]

Can not stick for a number of reasons. Does not mean one or many will not spend 'Money' on it not knowing this.

 

[crumbaker]

At least the federal government lets us dredge. These days I'm more afraid of what state and local politicians will try to pull with the militarization of police forces, cameras everywhere, and trying to make us gold diggers look like polluters any chance they can get.

 

[Assembler]

“Significant nexus” with navigable waters comes from the "District of Columbia ".

"U.S. Citizen"......records.