“By the strict tenets of that law, if you have a swimming pool in your back yard, you’re storing water illegally. Anybody could fill their swimming pool and not chlorinate the water. Illegal by Oregon’s laws.”
Correct. While ‘proving up’ a water right on a piece of land I own in NM, the state engineer’s office even measured the metal stock tank I have for my animals to include in the usage.
How do N.M.’s laws about water storage compare to Oregon’s?