Sen. Ron Johnson's "Victim of Government" was really nothing more than a victim of his own stupidity [View all]

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Unfortunately, the Corps issued a Cease and Desist letter Mr. Lathrop in December 1990. The Corps informed him that the dump was a "wetland" under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
Later Johnson charges that the Corps is guilty of "injudicicious application of wetland regulations."
What Johnson fails to mention is that this area that Stephen Lathrop wanted to develop, used to be depicted on many old maps as a lake and is today called Dobrey Slough. For those of you not familiar with word "slough," its another word for marsh, swamp or... wetland.
The reason why the Corps was calling this area a wetland is because its a wetland. And, as is typical of wetlands around the Mississippi River, this is a wetland that floods often... which is why its in a designated floodplain. In fact, at the time of this writing, the area that Ron Johnson claims was "injudiciously" classified as a wetland is not only very wet, but is under several feet of water.

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/victims-gov-update-area-johnson-mocked-gov-designating-wetland-n