Traditional tattoos work like this: the tattoo gun injects ink deep into the layers of your skin, below the dermis and its natural exfoliating abilities, where it globs together into particles that are too big for your body’s immune system to remove on its own. Inspired by an ex-cofounder’s horrible tattoo removal experience, Ephemeral co-founders Josh Sakhai, Brennal Pierre, and Vandan Shah spent more than five years and 60 formulations developing an ink with its own built-in removal process. Ephemeral tattoos look (and feel) like the real deal, but gradually fade from your skin over a period of 9-15 months until not a trace of the art can be seen on your skin. We’re not talking stickers that you transfer to your skin with water or even henna tattoos. That is, for possibly the first time ever, actual temporary tattoos. What Ephemeral provides are what they call “made to fade” tattoos. But the kind of ink you get there is different. Generational attitudes aside, I wonder whether, if Ephemeral had existed back when I was a kid, she would have felt the same way.Įphemeral’s first tattoo studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn seems at first glance like any other hipster tattoo shop-neon signs, statement wallpaper, hot tattooed people walking around. Flash forward twenty-odd years and around 40 percent of my body is inked (and, for the record, I have a job). The opinions of the author are not necessarily those of Farm Futures or Farm Progress.When I was little, my mom told me to never get a tattoo because if I did, I wouldn’t be able to get a job. Even though the Trump administration agencies have attempted to make WOTUS simpler, they have, I am afraid, created many lawsuits for the future.Ī version of this commentary appeared on Jin the online Farm Futures. What the new WOTUS rule attempts to be saying is that if the stream has dry channels and occasional puddles then a farmer or rancher has an ephemeral flow which would be excluded from WOTUS jurisdiction. You may remember candidate Trump made WOTUS one of his campaign themes. This act alone, as pointed out in earlier blogs, was an enormous grab of power against all landowners. Under the Obama administration’s earlier proposal, virtually any stream bed carrying water anytime of the year put that stream on your property under the jurisdiction of EPA and the Corps of Engineers. The plurality said “…a relatively permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable waters.” EPA and the Corps of Engineers have attempted to clarify what is or is not a relatively permanent body of water. Supreme Court plurality attempted to describe what it believed to be a Water of the United States. Rapanos plurality decision in promulgating the three terms. Consequently, if a stream in the more arid portions of the country flows only in direct response to a rainfall then chances are this stream is ephemeral in nature and not subject to jurisdiction. The new WOTUS rule will not give government agencies jurisdiction over these brief storm events. You may have read of farmers and ranchers being subjected to lawsuits in the West because on occasion there was water in a streambed. Ephemeral flow “…may occur simply because it is raining or has very recently rained or it has recently snowed and the snow has melted.” Generally speaking, ephemeral flow is the result of precipitation. The last term that is not as tricky legally as intermittent is the definition of ephemeral flow. The Trump administration’s EPA even discusses melting snow as a sole or primary source of intermittent flow. Intermittent generally means a seasonal situation when the groundwater table may be elevated. The issue is trickier when a new definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is examined for perennial, intermittent, or ephemeral streams.Ī perennial stream is defined “…to mean surface water flowing continuously year-round.” An intermittent stream in the WOTUS rule means “…surface water flowing continuously during certain times of the year and more than in direct response to precipitation.” This term is very tricky and may mean you have jurisdiction by EPA and/or by the Corps of Engineers or you may not. In an earlier blog, I discussed what is “not” a water of the United States.
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