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neighbors pipe draining wetlands onto our property

He built an earthen and boulder dam with a pipe. He has been filling in the wetlands from the edges with truckloads of woodchips, thereby shrinking the natural area, draining the overflow. It has destroyed a 200 x 200 foot piece of our property with ruts, waterfalls and unearthed and tumbled rocks. Zoning refuses to do anything about it. They sent us a letter stating that, ''he altered his land by installing a pipe into the small dam, thereby directing his overflow onto your property, which unfortunately causes you to have an extremely wet piece of property.'' We don't know if he even got a permit or had an environmental impact study done. He refuses to talk to us about it. I called the DEP and they contacted our local zoning enforcement agent and repeated to us their decision based on what she said. Our zoning official told us the water is bubbling up from underneath due to a high water table, but I have color video of the water coming under his fence onto our property, knee deep and flattening everything in it's path. I have video of the waterfalls, and the water undermining our small decorative stone wall. We filed a formal complaint four years ago and no one seems to understand that this is causing severe property damage.

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