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Watershed Conservation Plan - Destination Erie

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• Mason: Water Resources Act – being passed right now – concern<br />

• Well drillers’ licenses (We’ll look into this)<br />

• Well drillers have licenses and register with the DEP.<br />

• They’re legislating public wells heavily.<br />

• Blasco Farms: Cleaning waterways/ditches around farms<br />

• Wetland regulations. Were farms before. People let water back up. – things now classified because tiles<br />

blocked used to be farmed every day.<br />

• Blasco Farms: Well going down; used to use bath once a week, now every day (use is up).<br />

• What is the role of township supervisors in the plan<br />

• Wouldn’t it make sense to survey folks who are directly affected<br />

• Are you going to come in and take control You’ll recommend that others will do it.<br />

• But we had the same thing with the bike path study. Spent $1,000s in grants. End of study is that we have to<br />

educate the west county people about how great it will be to have a bike path in our back yards.<br />

• Conneaut Creek is in our back yard. I don’t want anyone out there telling me what I can and can’t do. Don’t<br />

want ATV trails. We want it left alone.<br />

• They’re off-roading in our backyards!<br />

• They’re supportive of measures – only if it’s not their land!<br />

• Will not get any support from private property owners and farmers. The reason is important to farmers<br />

(watershed) is because it is most productive land.<br />

• The watershed is important to everybody is why it’s important to farmers.<br />

• Mason: Big concern of rural areas is the surveys – when you do surveys, many small landowners are making<br />

rules and regulations for large landowners. That’s not good representation from them. Examples – four-wheelers<br />

to the Coho area.<br />

• Doe season issue – hunters shooting everything; trespassing. They don’t ask permission.<br />

• Farmers too busy or tired to take wildflower walk.<br />

• Bill: Migration of people coming into Girard; breaking-up farms; farmers disappearing. They want services.<br />

New regs come to the township because of development. We don’t have real data on the impact of population<br />

on the township. Everyone is looking to the township for responsibility. We have low-flow treatment plants that<br />

townships are responsible for, though our townships don’t have resources. In the last five years, there’s been<br />

pressure.<br />

• Blasco: School districts are out of control.<br />

• Sounds like people from the city are moving into the country and want the convenience of the city. Before you<br />

know it, they’ll be watering lawns every day.<br />

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