Why Trump is killing off the EPA can be found within this story.
An elderly veteran who ran a business supplying water to fight forest
fires was prosecuted by the federal government and sent to prison for
digging ponds on his own property, one of his lawyers says.
Joe Robertson, a Navy veteran from Montana, was 78 when he was
convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to
pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security
checks.
His crime?
Robertson, whose business supplied water trucks to Montana firefighters, dug a series of small ponds close to his home in 2013 and 2014. The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow, according to court documents.
The U.S. government prosecuted Robertson for digging in proximity to “navigable waters” without a permit, a violation of the Clean Water Act administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers.
The fully story can be found at The Daily Signal