The state will never let him dam up that stream, if it is in fact a stream.
That said, get some beavers.
There are large portions of the Appalachians where representatives of govt offices don't [bleep] with.
Had a friend who worked as an EMT, got a call to a home up in a hollow (hollar). Woman was beat damn near to death and when they tried to take her to the hospital the husband retrieved a shotgun and threatened them. Friend got a call out to the local sheriff's dept who waited for state police back up (chicken schits) when they got there they talked him into allowing them to take her. When she asked why the hell they didn't arrest him, they told her there was only one road out and they'd never make it out of there alive with him in the back seat in custody.
