Lake Allatoona. GA Corps rule

[dickb]

Hey Russau and others:

http://allatoona.sam.usace.army.mil/All ... ations.htm

Looks like their are hitting us on every front!

I picked this off of Randy's forum and the cancer continues to spread.

What do you guys think?

Dickb

[russau]

it sucks but its theyre land and they call the shots on it! theres been lots of artifact theft there and the last i heard of it 2 or 3 guys got caught and were getting hammered.

[dickb]

Well if this takes hold, the Corps of Engineers could very well shut down all prospecting on all of the Eastern Gold belt too. Just about every creek and river is part to some river watershed controlled by the COE.

Now it's not only the FS that we need to be concerned with but all of the Federal Agencies.

And the Rich get Richer and the poor starve to death!

Dickb

[russau]

yep i think your correct! i read somewhere last fall that the COE was/has been given controll over all waters in America, even farm ponds/lakes . i had a real head buster with the COE/seiarra club here in Missouri over putting my dredge into a creek (public property). seems that the mouthpeice for the seirra club is in Columbia Missouri (ken midcuff) and i wanted to put my dredge in to try it out before the Georgia DEF Rally. the Corps wanted to put it up as a 21 day notice for public response. these responses go to all the papers in that county. well guess who is the editor of the local paper there(Columbian) (about 5 miles away from where i wanted to put my dredge in)well its none other than ole ken midcuff and he spread the word/lies about me to all the property owners close to where i wanted to put my dredge in to try it out.needless to say it wasnt pretty! even the Missouri damonut gubernor was told and got involved with it! again it wasnt pretty!

[dickb]

My Opinion:

One of these days our so called Representatives will pass a law. The law will require that on your 65 birthday, if you made less than 250k, you need to report to the funeral home and get your injection to be put you to sleep.

Anybody that old is no longer productive to society and society should not be burdened with that persons care.

Boy, were leaving this world in great shape for our grandchildren. Welcome to the 21 century form of slavery (excuse me, I mean workforce productivity). My bad!


Dickb

[gremlin]

i have been to a few places ware big wigs were going to show up to see what all the fuss was about. every time we had to flag them down. the greens told them the stuff we use was as big as a house. i even had a few on the end of my hose. i got well gee this is fun, and dang thats samller than my lawn mower. i even showed the photos of a few very large holes, that they were dreaging over. one good storm and the hole is gone, they were shocked. i had some photos of a sand dreaging operation. after they stoped dreaging it filled in then became a wet land but the wet land only lasted a few years. that hole was a few hunderd feet wide and deap.

[dickb]

They think we're gonna ruin the environment. No digging in the banks. One high powered ski boat running wide open will do much more bank damage that a dredger will in a year. The difference is the power boat lobby has convinced the reps that they do no harm and the reps believe them.
Too bad we don't have somebody with lots of political clout going to bat for our interests. Dredgers are the only ones besides the fish that are removing HG from the watershed, then we haul all the junk and garbage out and everybody thinks we are causing all the pollution.

Dickb

[Hoser John]

New EPA/USGS/Water board study will close all dredging in every inch a all states. Mercury is the scam and preconceived notion ruled the day and DREDGING IS DEAD-see mercury study post here---John

[bobber_2]

After looking at the pamphlet the gold panning rules haven't changed for the last 10 years. Keep in mind that this applies to Lake Allatoona only. I don't like the rules any more then the reset of you but unless you have unlimited financial resources you deal with it. Check out the geocaching rules if you want to see something ridiculous.

[dickb]

John:

Cinnabar in a natural element the is in the earth's crust. I has been there since the earth was formed and there's no way that dredging can be blamed for adding HG to the environment. Any HG that was added to the streams was originally taken from them first. Dredgers and fish are the only ways that Mercury is taken out of the watershed, but many times more of it is extracted from the cinnabar ore that weathers, that is ever removed by dredgers.

bobber_2:

So much for recreation on the public lands. I thought it was for all Americans, not just the ones that have strong lobbyists.
The next thing we are gonna get blamed for is the greenhouse gas problem!

Dickb