The Trump EPA will soon be finalizing a key action to provide farmers, landowners, and ranchers much needed certainty by delivering a definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) that is simple, prescriptive, durable, follows the Supreme Court ruling in Sackett, and stands the test of time.

11:12 AM · Feb 14, 2026

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Waters of the United States (WOTUS) refers to the legal definition of water bodies that fall under federal jurisdiction, and recent proposals aim to clarify and potentially narrow this definition.

Overview of WOTUS
The term “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) is crucial in the context of the Clean Water Act (CWA), which aims to restore and protect the quality of the nation’s surface waters. WOTUS determines which water bodies are federally regulated, including navigable waters and adjacent wetlands. However, the definition of WOTUS has been a subject of extensive legal and regulatory debate for decades, influenced by various Supreme Court rulings and administrative changes. LINK (https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47408)

👀👆👆 I’ve discussed this before, and its part of why SCOTUS overturning Chevron Deference was so important, and effectively neutered all 3 and 4 letter agencies. All of them.

If you’ve been here with me for a while, you have heard me discuss in detail how most laws, mandates, codes, statutes, regulations, etc will be going away. Some, necessarily, will remain, ones that are important to our country and individual day to day lives. This is the beginning.

So to understand this, you have to think about unconstitutional maritime law.

ALL navigable waters in the US fall under federal maritime law. Even your farm pond, or swampy areas on your property. This is FACT.

Let me give you an example in our case here at home. 9 and I have waterfront acreage on a tributary (river) that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. All navigable waterways. Most people don’t realize that when you live on tidal water, your property line ends at mean high tide. NOT low tide. Now, let’s take it a step further. Had [EPA] wanted to, they could have deemed mean high water to include our beach area, as well as the first 100′ of our front yard as federal property due to the flood zone created by Hurricane Isabel back in the 90’s. In effect, also everything below the 100 year flood plane as determined by [EPA].

Another example. We all remember Hurricane Helene2.0, right? All of those lands impacted by that “storm”, even into Western NC, etc, could also have been deemed Federal lands under the same [EPA] regulations. All of it. Those that were here with me during Helene2.0 know that Helene2.0 had nothing to do with all that destruction that occurred in multiple states. I explained and showed you proof that it was actually [TVA], another entity that is now dead due to SCOTUS, released at least 3 upstream dams, which is where the waters REALLY came from. I explained how Hurricanes work. That they need a constant fuel source, and Helene2.0 had been over land for 3 days.

As I said above, this seems to be the first public release of all of these changes that are coming….looking forward to it…you?

~ Thucyclides

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TVA = Tennessee Valley Authority

EPA = Environmental Protection Agency