Posted on 07/27/2012 7:53:06 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater.
Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., says he plans to appeal his conviction in Jackson County (Ore.) Circuit Court on nine misdemeanor charges under a 1925 law for having what state water managers called “three illegal reservoirs” on his property – and for filling the reservoirs with rainwater and snow runoff.
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“According to Oregon water laws, all water is publicly owned. Therefore, anyone who wants to store any type of water on their property must first obtain a permit from state water managers.”
There, water thief!
California liberals moved into Oregon many years ago. It’s a do as I say state now.
Insanity!
Want to surprise and piss yourself off? Just go to your county or city codes and see how many restrictions are on what you can do with your own property.
Dig down into them, you will be angered.
What the FLUKE!!!
Somedays I stand back and look and can’t believe this is America anymore!!
A taste of how it will be across the whole country if the EPA gets its way and removes the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act.
The federal government will control every small pond on every rural property in the entire nation. Under threat of crippling fines and jail time, you’ll be able to do NOTHING to ANY body of water, ditch, creek, on your property without the approval of the Feds.
Just reason number 4,137 that Barack Obama and his agents of evil MUST be defeated in November.
UN Agenda 21.
My understanding is that laws of that nature are pretty common out West. Not so much east of the Mississippi.
Many jurisdictions have criminalized zoning ordinances.
I think Colorado has this water law also.
An acquaintance is constantly fretting about rain falling into any receptacle because of fines.
I don’t know if she’s “one of them” or there truly is such a law there.
>>> California liberals moved into Oregon many years ago. It’s a do as I say state now. <<<
Apparently 1925.
commie water take over..we have the same problem here but it has to be inground water. small ponds, ect...wonder what they do about swimming pools?
Washington state too. I tell my new neighbors here in KY that you have to get a permit to save rain water in Seattle and the stares of disbelief are comical.
Out here many of my neighbors have ponds on their property. No small number are stocked with catfish. Watering your garden is pretty cheap here.
And this is one of the reasons I left the Seattle hell hole.
Does no one there have backyard swimming pools? Blow-up wading pools for the toddlers? Does rain ever fall in them? Are those people jailed? Just wondrin’.
“But Tom Paul, administrator of the Oregon Water Resources Department, claims that Harrington has been violating the state’s water use law by diverting water from streams running into the Big Butte River.”
also,”Yet Paul admitted the 1925 law does apply because, he said, Harrington constructed dams to block a tributary to the Big Butte, which Medford uses for its water supply.”
This is not clear cut at all.
Does no one there have backyard swimming pools? Blow-up wading pools for the toddlers? Does rain ever fall in them? Are those people jailed? Just wondrin’.
Here they tax you for your runoff water. The more concrete driveway, sidewalk, patio, etc. that prevents water from soaking in, the higher "Stormwater charge" you pay.
Creeping collectivism - rain on your property belongs to the public.
Liberty fades away.
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