Yes, over 68%.
I’ll bet it’s less than 10%.
Nope.
So the state can’t get by with runoff from 90% of the land?
Oregon State owns less than 5%. The divisions of the Federal Government have more.
Thank you for the response. I was surprised to be that far off.
Look the average rainfall in this man’s home town is about 26 inches per year. Over 80,000 gallons of water falls on a city lot of 100 x 50 feet.
If he owns ten acres, he’ll see 2.11 acre feet of water fall on his property each year. That in excess of 700,000 gallons of water.
So what if he did set up three ponds to capture water of the hillside. That wouldn’t mean that each pond would be filled up over and over again. Each pond when full would lose some water by evaporation, but mostly the ponds would be topped off each year.
This guy couldn’t possibly use the total amount of water falling on his property each year. Even if he did, how may people are going to do that? Perhaps one out of 1,000 people would on a larger property.
If the average rainfall is 26 inches per year, Oregon should have no problem with water shortages at all.
In my area, almost nobody captures water, even as short as water is here. Would 25% of Oregonians capture water if they could? I doubt it. Perhaps you can produce figures there also. If so, I’d like to see them.
I still say that government is merely tossing it’s weight around, as governments are want to do.
Putting this man in jail like this? Simply draconian.
I’ll bet the guy doesn’t capture more than 5% of the water falling on his property.
Now, lets talk about how much water flows into the ocean, off Oregon’s coast.
Slamming the prison door on this guy, is a rather strange thing to do if hundreds of millions, perhaps many billions of gallons of fresh water flow into the ocean each year.
I made a mistake on this sentence. It severely understated the amount of acre feet of water that would fall on this guy’s land.
As stated: If he owns ten acres, he’ll see 2.11 acre feet of water fall on his property each year. That in excess of 700,000 gallons of water.
Actually if he owned ten acres, he would see about 22.11 acre feet of water fall on his land. Than would be in excess of seven million gallons of water.