Officials in Santa Barbara County are looking into whether Winfrey obtained the proper permits to erect a large boulder wall along the portion of San Ysidro Creek that flows along her estate.
A Carpinteria-based company applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Feb. 1 to reconstruct the creek bank along Winfrey’s estate, Noozhawk reported.
Noozhawk shot video of boulders being lowered by crane into the creek from Winfrey’s property. Officials, including game wardens and Santa Barbara County inspectors, and others also converged on the creek to inspect the construction and figure out how the wall came to be built. Noozhawk said the Corps of Engineers will grant emergency permits during floods to protect property, but homeowners are supposed to rebuild with only the same materials as are already present, and the work cannot extend beyond the original conditions.
“The property manager is working with us to comply with our Fish and Game Code requirements for this new wall,” Gibson told Noozhawk. “We are going to review what he has given us” and see if any remedial action needs to be taken.
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