C. Dream- The number on that piece probably related to the soil they claimed to have mapped it to. The USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) which used to be the Soil Conservation Service has soil maps for most of the U.S. (Alaska is pretty light) at various scales but its sample based, obviously they couldn't have taken cores and such every whatever measurement you want to give it distance. So your wet spot may actually be that type of soil or they think they know enough characteristics to think it is. Still lots of interpretation involved. But the USDA doesn't have any regulatory enforcement unless you're signed up for one of their programs.
But the individual states can regulate as much as they feel like unless and until someone takes them to court and wins. South Dakota is pretty light on regulation but from what I've heard about MN they have lots of rule writers on the payroll. I know reading their trapping regs (which they don't allow non-residents to do unless that person owns land in the state) a guy just about needs a 30 foot tape measure in his trapping kit (certain distance for this, another distance for that). Lots of bureaucrats sitting around conference tables writing rules...
I guess if you got rid of them by just moving your junkers into the woods a bit and they haven't been back, you're probably doing good. I wonder how many Twin City burbs have laws against dumpster prowling???
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