Backfilling low marsh at camp ideas??

Well, this doesn't sound illegal

I guess you would have to rig up some sort of rake or heavy bucket on a chain. Sort of like a bike that you peddle or drive with a motor. The rake(s) would follow the path of the chain around the gears at the peddle part and the other end sticking way out and lowered into the canal.

???? Probably illegal but that wasn't the question.

No just kinda started thinking about this project. The canal is silted in so I figured it might be a good idea

LAfourche parish. Own the property on both side of the canal.

We have a camp that, at one time had two "slips". Hurricane Rita silted in one of them. I did what anyone else would do and eventually called in the heavy equipment guys. Ol baw barely got out his truck before he proclaimed it wetlands. Called in the engineers, and sure enough, what was a boat slip is now wetlands. I'd have to mitigate to have use of that slip again.

I don't remember the exact figure, but the fine is extraordinarily high.

Exxxxactly.

Thanks to the Clean Water Act if the swamp is connected even remotely to a navigable water body you are going to need a dredge/fill permit from the Army Corp of Engineers. Even if it is a very minor fill project you still gotta get it approved and you may have to offset any wetland destruction by incorporating a supplementary project (more money).

Welp... F*CK this idea. Lol

A Johnny Cash song comes to mind, one piece at a time.