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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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.
Tell him to prepare for personal perforation should he trespass on your property.
Impounding rain water can help with Global Sea Level rise. Save the Earth! Impound rain water.
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.
Paul needs to contact the Pacific Legal Foundation to look at his case but water wars were quite frequent in the west...
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