My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

Today I went road-tripping looking at all of the drainage issues in Laurieton. There's a few of them:

-A man who actually protested that he should not have to build his brand new house up so that it would be constructed to the correct flood height because his neighbour was not built up to the same level. His place now floods, of course, and so does his neighbours.

-The hardest thing today was trying to explain to a lamen that a report that says:

"The obstructions in the waterway do not constitute a major disruption to the waterway area, as such, they do not need to be removed.....(insert a bunch more writing)...WITH THE ADDITION OF 600 MM OF FREEBOARD THE EASEMENT WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO CONVEY THE DESIGN STORM EVENT"

Actually means: "your thing does not comply unless you add 600 mm onto the top of it"

They stopped at the first sentence which said it's all hunky dory and never made it to the disclaimer/clarification/main explanatory part of the report.

-Then there was the explanation where I had to try to explain that the "wetland retention basin" is actually meant to have plantings and water in it to help stop pollutant run-off from the subdivision.

-It was almost as bad as the person who I had to tell that they aren't obligated to actually mow the "lawn" of the forest next to them!