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Dam A Trout Stream, Fill Wetlands - - For Many Years - - Get A Wisconsin Wrist Slapped

October 4, 2011 by The Political E...

Newspapers and blogs and social media have been buzzing about Republican-led efforts to sneak wetland filling permissions into Special Session job-creation legislation, but truth be told, when businesses are caught filling wetlands, damming streams, even laying in a road - - intentionally, without permits - - the fiscal consequence is chump change.

Like less than $3,000 a year.

Sounds like a bottom-line best practice, if you ask me.

Case in point:

NEWS RELEASE

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen Announces Judgment Requiring Monroe County cranberry operation to restore wetland, restore flow to trout stream, and pay $50,000 for wetland filling violations

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