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Post by SWMan on Feb 23, 2021 23:17:32 GMT -6
It's almost always much better for the downstream guy if the upstream water is drained properly and not trickling across for an extended period of time making it sour and wet. If the guy did a good job and paid for the work I'd be pleased and move on. No point in making a fuss about progress. If it was a butcher job it should be made right. Water runs downhill, that's the way it is... While you are totally right in logic, in reality its a different story. Maybe Manitoba is different, but out here its somewhere you tread very lightly. You want to be very discrete about things, like I said years ago over the dark side, most of my ditching is done with a 20 foot Deere Surflex while things in summerfallow, no one even notices anything is going on. But then I also make sure I do it in a way I'm not flooding out the next guy, because well most of my farm is the highest point on the horizon and like you say, water def runs downhill. But where you get into a whole different can of worms is an exsiting and or registered waterway, those are protected and some even have a buffer zone along them. It really depends here in MB. They really go after the Southwest of the province while the government maintains the drains in the old lake bottom they call the Red River Valley.(I put that in my response to stir up the RRV guys on here...ha ha). At any rate nothing major is going on in MB without permits and anything that is a permanent wetland can't be drained. I'm glad all my land was drained prior to the 80's and I went to all the trouble to get permits on all of it about 10 years ago. Having said that creeks and waterways are cleaned out and maintained here with no issues as far as I know, providing you aren't altering the direction and not draining any new water. Some individuals do seem to get a fair bit of latitude though, almost like they are above the rules....cough....cities and towns...
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Post by Oatking on Feb 24, 2021 16:34:18 GMT -6
Yeah with my Red river lot land I get nervous when all the water from out west starts heading down our way. Aubigny to Rosenort is pretty close to the widest flooding plain points in the valley so I am screwed in major rain or flooding events. In dry years though I get a bumper crop.
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