Caution!
Building On a Wetland Can Be Dangerous To Your House
From an article printed in 1998, National Wildlife Magazine.
As is true in Gainesville, many local govenments are giving approval for developers to fill in and build on wetlands.
"Build your house in a wetland, warns Ed Perry, "and you've got a hobby for the rest of your life. You will be fighting that water forever."
Ed Perry is a biologist who investigates illegally filled wetlands in Pennsylvania for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). He has talked with many sad and bewildered owners of flooded houses. If developers fill even small wetlands to build homes, it can create huge problems for the buyers. Caveat emptor!
"In the Midwest, where thousands of homes were struck by devastating floods in the early 1990s, more than 17 million acres of wetlands have been built on or plowed under in the Mississippi and Missouri river basins; an FWS study found that those destroyed wetlands could have contained enough river water to flood 1,000 football fields to a depth of more than four miles. Instead, much of that water poured over levees and into people's homes."
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