[PoloSec]

The victim of gov't tyranny:

[SkyDancer]

Should have just said they were wetlands - the libs in OR would have demonstrated and rioted.

[Leaning Right]

Patriot. I am in awe of him. Especially because he will lose (one way or the other) in the end.

[MileHi]

of interest ping

[Repeat Offender]

P75689: What are you in for?

P28675: Murder. What are you in for?

P75689: Stealing rain.

[immadashell]

Oregon State claims that Harrington is diverting water meant for the state’s rivers and streams, which is part of their water supply.

The State's claim is too broad and ambiguous. They need to specify the particular stream or river watershed which is being violated. If Harrington's property is not part of a specific watershed then he is not in violation of the idiotic law.

[DannyTN]

Here's more to the story...

I've got mixed opinions on this.

• State says he's collecting from tributaries implying preexisting water ways. He says it's all rain water falling on his property. What's the facts? Because interference with pre-existing water ways has always been a no-no.
• The fact that the state pulled the permits after issuing them, to me says that the state is liable for the damages to the extent that he put work into the reservoirs after the permit was issued.
• Seems like once the reservoirs are full, the amount of water passing over the dam and back into the waterways would return to close to normal less a little evaporation.
• Both him and the state sound like petulant children.

[Dusty Road]

I’ve got kind of mixed emotions on this one. Our Big ranch is 32 sections (32 square miles) and it feeds to the head of the Concho River. While we have built some small ponds we don’t build them in what we call the main basin so we don’t deprive any of those down stream of much needed water. There is one area on the ranch I could dam up and turn it into a lake about 3 miles long and a mile wide but that cuts off water to neighboring ranches. Water is the life blood to West Texas Ranches.

[smokingfrog]

Water hoarder!!

[353FMG]

Does that mean that one is not allowed to dig a fish pond on his property to raise fish as a food source?

[MosesKnows]

local jail to serve 30 days

I think the penalty is worse if the EPA rules that the puddle in your backyard is a navigable waterway.

I do see your point but the price of freedom is eternal vigilance and the nation is far from vigilant.

"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!" --Samuel Adams, to John Pitts, 1776

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed." Ayn Rand

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus, Roman Senator and Historian (A.D. c.56 - c. 115)

[drypowder]

Well, the next time it floods from rain and private property is damaged, the property owner should rightly sue the state for not controlling their water

[drypowder]

Well, the next time it floods from rain and private property is damaged, the property owner should rightly sue the state for not controlling their water

[colorado tanker]

He's wrong, and for good reason.

Western water rights are different than Eastern. In the West we have appropriations based on a first in time system. When water is scarce, the most recent priority is shut off first, and so on, with the oldest appropriation having the highest priority.

What he is doing is trying to circumvent others' property rights by keeping all his runoff. Basically, he is stealing water from its rightful owners.

[inpajamas]

May God send the rain to Texas where it will fall on the just and unjust and we will share it and be thankful knowing that he owns it.

[bamahead]

Wanna see a hero? Here's one...



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