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Originally Posted by wishin i was fishin
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I gotta say I am disappointed that they are making private water (rather than conservation) a big issue.
Suppose I were to buy some land in S. Louisiana. Right now, if that land washes away, I still own title to the bottom and the water over it. I can restore it and rebuild it if I want.
But if erosion and subsistence transfers title to the state, the state now has a motive to allow (or even create) conditions favoring the erosion and subsistence of my land so the rights become theirs.
This seems like an unConstitutional taking of private property to me.
Private property owners need a balance between the current state of affairs and the transfer of property to the state as a result of erosion and subsistence.