Thank you for commenting, I was looking forward to seeing what you'd say. But wait - thats only case 63803! You haven't even seen 63802 yet to see the other complaint involved.
So he pissed off someone working in Fish & Wildlife. Yeah, that's not good.
Category 2, holy shit.
Category II wetlands are difficult, though not impossible, to replace, and provide high levels of some functions. These wetlands occur more commonly than Category I wetlands, but still need a relatively high level of protection.
It's that last part that's going to fuck him. He not only violated the buffer zone but then pushed the debris into the water itself. This is where you get nasty.
I remember you talking about water tables and buffers, care to lend your expertise on this complaint?
From what I recall, the buffer zone is mainly there to give a minimum safe distance that anything can be done near the wetlands. I'm not an expert, I just got it explained in very small words that I paid really close attention to. Around the standing water site they usually place a buffer zone that you aren't allowed to do any modification to protect the wetland from exactly the stupid shit that Gurgling Gurgy did. Which was bulldoze all the fucking brush for 4000 square feet and shove it into the water like a fucking Captain Planet Supervillain.
Now, IIRC, there are a BUNCH of fuckups on Onion Boy's part. We'll skip over residential property modification without permits, licenses, environmental impact examinations, EPA and Wildlife clearances and skip straight to what's going to be his fisting by the Hulk.
First, he cleared land in the buffer zone without a permit. That's a fucking crime. Plain and simple.
One thing he's probably going to get hit with is operating a vehicle within the buffer zone, and probably within the wetland itself. This means they'll be doing contamination tests on the water, the soil, everything. Cats are well known for leaking and if they find a SINGLE fucking rainbow on a puddle, the ass fucking will commence. Not to mention if they get real nasty and do a soil compaction test where the Cat got driven on the soil.
He made a bonfire, which means he's dumb enough he probably poured lighter fluid or gasoline all over it. Even if he just burned cardboard, that accellerant might have contaminated the ground. With the sensitivity that they have their instruments turned up to if they're feeling particularly pissy, he could end up getting fined for polluting a Class 2 protected site. That's even if you ignore that he might have violated a King County burn ban at a time where half of Washington State was burning down.
Now, with it being a standing water Class 2 zone, that means the water table is high. Onion Tard was bitching about well depth, but that shows how fucking stupid he is. You drill 10-30 feet BELOW the minimum water table for your well to make sure that you have enough resivior to pump 1.5-7.5 gallons per minute without depleting your well. (I've had to have wells redrilled before) The State of Washington is going to go by minimum water table depth and maximum depth for contaminate checking. Gurg's in a world of fucking hurt.
They have a Biologist, Code Enforcement and Development Engineers involved in all three, and the cases aren't even a month old. I'm assuming that WDFW is the Wildlife Department of Fish & Wildlife, correct? Does them getting involved as well change things? Care to speculate on the outcome of all this?
If they got biology out there, that means that Gurgy the Onion Boy might have an endangered species in that water at worst case (for him) or they just want a biological impact report. Remember, he used a cat, which are known for leaking fluids, to push debris into the water and had bonfires he probably used gasoline or lighter fluid on.
The wetlands are full of all kinds of stuff over the summer. Bugs, maybe fish, birds, all that good shit. But, it's late summer edging into fall, which means eggs. When he pushed all that into the water, he disturbed the mud, the weeds, and everything else, possibly killing wildlife (protected wildlife if he was unlucky) and damaging the habitats of the wildlife and the ecosystem of the wetland itself.
Code Enforcement will cite him on all the general stuff. Fish & Wildlife will go out to check the habitats. Biology will investigate the impact of his actions on the habitat and ecosystem.
If I had to guess? He's going to wish he'd run himself over with that tractor.
@Jet Fuel Johnny I hope I'm not bothering you, I'm just not very familiar with this and Im quite enjoying your wealth of knowledge on the subject.
My knowledge is 20 years old and for a different county, so take it with a large grain of salt.
One more thing, code enforcement for where he lives states that for every one tree removed, two must be planted in it's place. Considering what you said about tree's and tree roots, this is going to make it twice as expensive I'd assume, and they're going to have to plant somewhat mature trees as opposed to what you'd get at a standard, run of the mill nursery?
I've heard of people having to bring in 20-40 foot tall trees on a semi-trailer and have them put in (although it seems to me like it would damage the land) and each tree costing tens of thousands of dollar to plant.
Even then, he can't just run down to home depot and get new ones. They'll have minimum height and diameter, ONLY from a pre-approved area (to prevent parasite beetles and the like, which are occassionally on Home Depot trees), shipped only in a preapproved way, and placed by State chosen contractors at State wages. Those are going to run thousands of dollar EACH for Gurg.
If I had to guess at what's going to happen?
Washington State is about to fuck him harder than the IRS ever could. He's going to lose all his assets, be in massive debt, and do jail time. All of his videos will be looked at by the State and they'll determine if he was just ignorantly negligent or malicious in his negligence.
They'll fine him, if he doesn't pay it, they'll put a lien on his house, his business, everything. The county will fuck him, the state will fuck him, and from the looks of it, they're setting up a case for the EPA and BLM to come in. If they get involved, he's fucking toast.
By this time next year, he'll be lucky if he lives in a cardboard box turning tricks for Taco Bell money.
EDIT: I forgot, if BLM gets involved, they can flat out TAKE your fucking property, especially when it's mismanagement of a sensitive ecosystem and protected area. State and Fed don't fuck around. If they think that he'll be a repeat offender or is the type to maliciously damage the site as a "FUCK YOU, DAD!" they might get a judge to force him to vacate the property as well as forbid him from being within a certain distance of the property.
Remember, a Class 2 Wetlands is codified as: "need a relatively high level of protection."
Washington State, BLM, and the EPA proved in the 1990's that they're willing to shut down entire towns and put tens of thousands of people out of work.
They're gonna take turns fucking Gurgy until he could store Zinna Jones's dildo collection in his ass.