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Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property
CNS News ^ | 7-26-2012 | Kendra Alleyne

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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To: Secret Agent Man
Do ya think?

Water issues out West are wacko and water issues in the East have become the same for different reasons.

If one has land at the height of the watershed, should that (surface) water be one's own?

If one has land that has no (surface) transit of water from above, is that one's own water?

If one can save water from one's own land that doesn't come from surface water from above lands, shouldn't one have total property right to same?

Just wait until teh UN gets into regulating your properties rights, much less the flow from your bladder.

81 posted on 07/27/2012 7:01:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Secret Agent Man
"It’s good to admit who you really are."

Tell him to prepare for personal perforation should he trespass on your property.

82 posted on 07/27/2012 7:04:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: whattajoke
Why just let water flow to the oceans when the "Consensus Scientists" tell us that the ocean levels are due to rise because of Global Warming and wreak havoc.?

Impounding rain water can help with Global Sea Level rise. Save the Earth! Impound rain water.

83 posted on 07/27/2012 7:08:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Nah, it wouldn’t come to that.

I’d just get a government bureaucrat to come over to tell him to leave. He’d skiddadle right away.


84 posted on 07/27/2012 8:41:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sir Napsalot; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp

Paul needs to contact the Pacific Legal Foundation to look at his case but water wars were quite frequent in the west...


85 posted on 07/28/2012 6:55:54 AM PDT by tubebender
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