Then there's the issue of septic systems in rural areas. Are we gonna have to have a closed system where we will have to get trucks to come in and pump it out? Think of the cost!!!
Septic systems are natural. A person cannot put enough chemicals down a toilet to hurt anything.
All of this is just a way to raise more tax money at the expense of large property owners, and very soon, small property owners.

BTW, Victoria advocate. Your adds are very irritating when they move the print up and down automatically. I feel like I'm getting seasick sometimes.

Ken..."Did you know that the City of Victoria must comply with an unfunded federal mandate to put monitors on all outfalls?"

No, I didn't. What are they monitoring? As for the Hazmat crew, they should be dispatched to DC. There is nothing more hazardous to the health of the country than a politician on a crusade.

Apparently people who voted "yes" do not realize that this will become their problem too. Once the water is controlled, "in an attempt" to save the rivers and bays, the Feds will have a easier time telling us all what we can and cannot put on our land. Say goodbye to ant poisons, grass sprays, fertilizers for the lawn, and anything else that can run off when it rains.
I guess we will all have to have permits to buy anykind of poisons soon.

Suzy...Yep -- it's your fault :)

thewww

LOL...do you realize what you just said?

Hey Suzy...The bill was created by a democrat and the congress is controlled by democrats. Ya'll wanted change, and as another poster says, 64 million people voted for the changes so get over it. The old saying is holding true today: "When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." Then there's the other old saying: "Be careful what you wish for. You MIGHT get it."

In the article it is stated that manure gets into the waterways from stock ponds & creeks running through personal property. Look at the Rio Grande, one of the filthies rivers in the country & I highly doubt it is due to someones cattle pooing in the creek on their property. Isn't the Hudson River the most polluted in the US? Is that also explained away by runoff from private land waters? What about the random wildlife using creeks as "facilities" on public land? How is the government going to stop Bambi from relieving himself in the creek?
Dead bodies of all kinds are floating in rivers, creeks & ponds....I'm sure they are not good for the environment either.

How on earth is the government going to police all these waters, not to mention drainage ditches? Maybe the ditch by the mall will finally get cleaned up.

Hey thewww,
Please don't use use party preference to decide anything about anyone. I'm a Democrat and definitely don't agree with the idea that government has the right to take over someones land, or their freedom to use their land as they see fit...with some exceptions, of course.

VBB...It's probably ONE democrat voting 475 times. I can't believe that that many people would be willing to give up not only their own rights but to let the government take the rights of others. If this comes to pass and the feds go onto private land to attempt to prevent landowners from using their ponds and stock tanks as THEY see fit, to prevent them from watering their livestock without a federal permit, I predict blood will be shed. In the long run, the landowners will lose because they don't have the resources of the government, but I predict some of the feds will fall. Remember Waco. They all died in the compound but they took some of the feds with'em. Never forget the words of Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

So far 475 people say yes....475 people are willing to give up everyones rights...that to me is completely unfair & unconstitutuional. They most likely don't own anything, so it is of no consequence to them.

Good idea John, but to late.

Most of the major ranching and farming operations are already owned by corporations, not to mention feedlots, processing plants, seed and fertilizer suppliers, equipment manufactures and shipping companies.

After the water pipeline to San Antonio is built, I am confident that the the city and county officials will do a good job with the water on your land.

I would love to hear the peoples reasoning that voted "yes" WHY??? DO TELL!! Although I have been asking myself 'WHY' since last November.

I'm going to sum this up in one word online, STRIKE!

Farmers and ranchers need to "Unite and strike!"

Nuff said.

With Washington bankrupting this country to serve their "Special Interest Corporate Masters"; maybe it's time for Farmers and Ranchers to remind them the power of an organized and dedicated population, "United and Strike".

Enough to get public opinion to stop government from overstepping the rule of law. An army marches on its stomach, isn't it time for the sleeping giant to wake up before it goes into the eternal sleep. What will it take for people to wake up against Government allowing corporations to create conditions; that are used to justify them taking away your rights only to be sold to the very corporations that created it.

"Give me liberty or give me death", I'm sick and tired of Government having one rule for corporate special interest and another for you and me.

This is all I'm going to say about this crap! A man and women put their heart and soul into the land, both belong to God to do with as he wills, not the government.

jmiding! kajdmholes!

markkrueger:
Maybe you could fix THE CITY's water! you do that, you could really make some $$$$$$$$$$$ !

When will this stop? This is simply another attempt of the Federal Government trying to dominate and manipulate every aspect of our lives.

Is there nothing this bunch in Congress won't try to control? Have they never heard of private property? It seems to me that laws controlling private ponds and stock tanks on private property constitutes a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. The drafter of this clause, James Madison, wrote: “A Government is instituted to protect property of every sort . . . This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.” Does the government plan on compensating land owners for not being able to use their water as they see fit? Somehow, I'm not surprised to learn that the bill was authored by a democrat -- Feingold of Wisconsin.

If anyone has a stinky water well, I can fix it for under a grand. www.SouthTexasOxyBlast.com

not only no, but h#ll no. If that goes through, oil and mineral rights won't be far behind. Isn't water a mineral?