The title of a July 16 article in the Osceola Sentinel – Tribune reads More Changes Made to Reservoir Plan. It may as well say More Stress Heaped Upon Clarke County Landowners.
The article shares information that the Natural Resources Conservation Service is looking for alternatives to constructing a reservoir at the currently proposed site.
The calculation for water usage is now listed for a peak daily demand of 3 million gallons instead of 4.1 gallons as previously claimed. This recalculation could mean the lake size would be smaller and might change the location of the lake.
These additional changes “will set the date for construction back by four years.”
More years of fighting, spending money, stress and worry for those in jeopardy of having their land taken in the guise of water need. More years for the land developers to covet the land of Iowa citizens and want to take it for their own personal gain.
Clarke County landowners: please know that other Iowans near and far are watching your plight. We care about what is happening to you on a daily basis. One year or four years, we will add our voices to yours that in the end you will have the Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness that should be yours to live in peace on YOUR land!
Filed under: Politics, callmecrusader | Tagged: Clarke County landowners, Natural Resources Conservation Service, water usage
This sounds like good news for the landowners, not the cause of more stress.
Stress is added with more years of spending money for lawyer fees, time at meetings, more letters to the editor that attempt to heap on the pressure to just give up.
Perhaps you are right, Jerry… time might help, but I believe if you asked residents of Clarke County, Page County and others, they would tell you that stress is a daily event when your home and way of life is threatened. One day, one year, four years.
They are still on radar that’s for sure. The expense of fighting this will continue to grow. Decisions on whether to make improvements on homes and land will remain a struggle, like deciding to paint a room, remodel, landscape, purchase machinery, etc.
Thanks for keeping us updated on this.
Makes me wonder if my family farm could be next?
All these studies and delays- more waste of tax payer money. This is a terrible injustice for the landowners in Clarke County. Greed for land is just beginning as greed for power grows in Washington D.C. and filters out to land in Iowa!
When they came for California’s state parks
I didn’t say a word
When they came for Kansas’’s set asides
I was worried but kept quiet
When they came for my land I gave up without a peep
as no one was there to stand beside me.