Gone Fishin
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In Mountrie area. I need a lawyer that can help me with a neighbor that has dammed up a creek with a road backing up water onto my property.
I have a creek that runs through my property. In the past when it rained hard we would have water standing for a few days. But during hunting season we could drive the truck across the creek bottom to the back of the property. Then a few years back we started having standing water issues, and now there is water standing to the point we have algae growing.
There was a big flood that washed out the neighbors road. There was a culvert that allowed the water to drain off my property. They rebuilt the road and built it much higher with no culvert
I have talked with the owners and they won't do anything because they don't want more water on their property. I talked with the city, they went out but since nothing had been done in the past few month they could not do anything about it. Talked to DNR and they have no authority and sent me to the army corp of engineers. Army corp guy is doing NOTHING. I have emailed them 6-8 times. Last emal the guy told me that he is having problems contacting them to get on the property. I gave him the website to the property owner, the owners cell phone number, owners email, and gave him permission to get access through my property where he can clearly see the road backing up the water onto my property.
These guys have pretty deep pockets. Have paid hunts on their property. Worked with the armycorp a few years back (maybe the same guy that I am trying to get to help me), so me not hunting my property is not hurting them in any way. Is there a way to use their established $/day to hunt to file a suit for 3yr @ $/day. We haven't been able to get on the property to mow it, put in food plots, or even hunt the back of the property without wading thru water/mud.
thx to any that can help
I have a creek that runs through my property. In the past when it rained hard we would have water standing for a few days. But during hunting season we could drive the truck across the creek bottom to the back of the property. Then a few years back we started having standing water issues, and now there is water standing to the point we have algae growing.
There was a big flood that washed out the neighbors road. There was a culvert that allowed the water to drain off my property. They rebuilt the road and built it much higher with no culvert
I have talked with the owners and they won't do anything because they don't want more water on their property. I talked with the city, they went out but since nothing had been done in the past few month they could not do anything about it. Talked to DNR and they have no authority and sent me to the army corp of engineers. Army corp guy is doing NOTHING. I have emailed them 6-8 times. Last emal the guy told me that he is having problems contacting them to get on the property. I gave him the website to the property owner, the owners cell phone number, owners email, and gave him permission to get access through my property where he can clearly see the road backing up the water onto my property.
These guys have pretty deep pockets. Have paid hunts on their property. Worked with the armycorp a few years back (maybe the same guy that I am trying to get to help me), so me not hunting my property is not hurting them in any way. Is there a way to use their established $/day to hunt to file a suit for 3yr @ $/day. We haven't been able to get on the property to mow it, put in food plots, or even hunt the back of the property without wading thru water/mud.
thx to any that can help
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