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To: DoughtyOne

Here are a few things that need to be considered.

Rain water that falls on your property is mostly absorbed by the ground or evaporates. If you get enough rain that water flows off your property, the water will fill whatever reservoirs you have in short order. Water collects quickly.

The concept Oregon is using here would also mean that if you have a pond, you are in violation of their law. You couldn’t allow a pond to exist on your property. If you had live-stock, you would have to purchase any water you needed for their consumption.

If the pond is allowed, then the same concept should be the grounds for you collecting other water for your own use.

If the city still plays hardball, then you should take them to court and have them pay you for the cubic feet of rain that falls on your property. They charge you for water. This means they are getting the water for free off your property (and of course many other people’s property) and selling it back to you. That isn’t equitable.


13 posted on 07/27/2012 10:34:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The idea in Oregon and WA is that the Indian tribes have the right to ALL the water, not just all the water that they need. What they aim to do is charge the private well owners for the water and limit the amount of water that the private well owners can use. Collecting rain water interferes with the limiting of water use.

The claim is that the rain water that falls on your property might run off your property and then wouldn’t be yours any longer.

There is a case headed to the Supreme Court over the Indian rights to ALL the water. They took it to court in WA State and lost and lost again on appeal, despite the support of the radical environmentalists. The Greens actually abandoned the tribes on this one, after they realized the political fall-out that would result, but they assisted the tribes in the early court case, doing the research and providing legal advice.


19 posted on 07/27/2012 10:44:30 AM PDT by Eva
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