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Levee rule a tall order: Corps of Engineers shouldn’t just decree and walk away, says editorial

Posted by: Maven on January 27, 2010 at 8:46 am

From the Stockton Record:

“At least the Army Corps of Engineers says it won’t enforce its new rules for two years.

The rules have to do with vegetation along the hundreds of miles of levees that protect Stockton and other San Joaquin County cities. The Corps wants the trees gone.

It doesn’t take much travel through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to see what a huge, expensive task that may be. As with all mandates from on high, no one who is making the rules is talking about paying for the work.

The Corps already has made it clear it wants boat docks and structures removed from within the levees as well as structures too close to the outside of the levees. That’s stirred many residents who’ve enjoyed such things as private docks and boathouses for years. Many of the structures were built with government approval. Times change, and so do the rules. But stripping vegetation from the banks of levees? That’s going to be a problem. … “

Read more of this editorial from the Stockton Record by clicking here.

January 27, 2010 · Filed Under Levees

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