Developing swamp land

Find out if it is protected wetlands. Dewater. Remove muck and organic material. Build to elevation with structural fill.

There is a reason you have been offered a "deal".

This is a bad idea IMO

Good luck.

Worked out well for Walt Disney.

If it is a wetland (sounds like it is) you will have to mitigate for the wetlands Mitigation = $$$

I didn’t fall for anything. I didn’t buy it

And mitigation is extremely costly

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Have an environmental consultant do a desktop delineation, shouldn't be very expensive to see if wet or not. If it's obviously wet this will is the cheapest way to know, but the report yields nothing official.

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All they are going to do is look at soils and potentially LiDAR. Not worth the money. If it's forested, you can't see shite on aerial to tell you if it is a wetland or not. Find someone that can read a soils map and you will get the same information.

OP, having experience in this area, I wouldn't touch that with a 39 1/2 foot pole. If it is, in fact, cypress swamp, the mitigation alone will be very expensive. Then, being in Pierre Part, it is likely in the coastal zone, so you have to deal with the State and Feds for permitting. DNR is a pain in the arse to deal with. You will likely want to hire a consultant to do the permitting work for you.

In the end, 4 acres of swamp would be a massive headache that I would advise against. Go find 4 acres of anything else and you will come out better than the "deal" and associated permitting costs of this property.

Thanks for the info fellas