Doesn’t sound like they own it. Sounds like the river burst/overtopped its banks somewhere and they complained that it was flowing out of the river/wetlands onto their land.
Not clear the farmer expected this rather than either fixing the breach and/or reduced but not zero flow.
Fair enough but yeah, fix the breach… don’t just destroy an ecosystem and kill hundreds of animals. Seems like a lazy and shortsighted decision to just completely turn it off.
Doesn’t sound like they own it. Sounds like the river burst/overtopped its banks somewhere and they complained that it was flowing out of the river/wetlands onto their land.
Not clear the farmer expected this rather than either fixing the breach and/or reduced but not zero flow.
Fair enough but yeah, fix the breach… don’t just destroy an ecosystem and kill hundreds of animals. Seems like a lazy and shortsighted decision to just completely turn it off.