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EPA Pursues Ag Practices to Seek Violations

Todd Neeley
By  Todd Neeley , DTN Staff Reporter
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Northern Wyoming farmer David Hamilton made improvements to an irrigation ditch on his farm. Although work on such ditches is exempt from the Clean Water Act, EPA and the Corps of Engineers charged Hamilton with violations. A court sided with Hamilton. (Photo courtesy of Todd Rhodes)
Though the EPA touts a list of exemptions from the Clean Water Act rule for agriculture, the agency has pursued violations on practices that seemed exempt.

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Todd Neeley

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