“According to Oregon water laws, all water is publicly owned. Therefore, anyone who wants to store any type of water on their property must first obtain a permit from state water managers.”
There, water thief!
California liberals moved into Oregon many years ago. It’s a do as I say state now.
Insanity!
Want to surprise and piss yourself off? Just go to your county or city codes and see how many restrictions are on what you can do with your own property.
Dig down into them, you will be angered.
What the FLUKE!!!
Somedays I stand back and look and can’t believe this is America anymore!!
A taste of how it will be across the whole country if the EPA gets its way and removes the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act.
The federal government will control every small pond on every rural property in the entire nation. Under threat of crippling fines and jail time, you’ll be able to do NOTHING to ANY body of water, ditch, creek, on your property without the approval of the Feds.
Just reason number 4,137 that Barack Obama and his agents of evil MUST be defeated in November.
UN Agenda 21.
Does no one there have backyard swimming pools? Blow-up wading pools for the toddlers? Does rain ever fall in them? Are those people jailed? Just wondrin’.
Does no one there have backyard swimming pools? Blow-up wading pools for the toddlers? Does rain ever fall in them? Are those people jailed? Just wondrin’.
Here they tax you for your runoff water. The more concrete driveway, sidewalk, patio, etc. that prevents water from soaking in, the higher "Stormwater charge" you pay.
Creeping collectivism - rain on your property belongs to the public.
Liberty fades away.
The real tragedy is not that the law exists. There are all sorts of old goofy laws on books. In some states or towns it is STILL illegal to drive a car through town without someone walking in front of you with a red lantern warning people of your approach.
The tragedy is that some numbskull actually enforced it.
If you are storing runoff upstream, that means that a property owner down stream is not getting water, or not getting enough. I don’t see this law as unreasonable, since it is an attempt to balance the needs of all property owners within the watershed area. Nothing promotes animosity among neighboring landowners like a fight over water.
Oregon ping...
And what does God say about this silly Oregon law?
Once the smoke clears and people see the wreckage, it will become obvious that the only way out of this mess is to round up liberals for imprisonment or deportation.
I guess if one takes a leak in the backyard it becomes state owned urine.
Some people have a very high tolerance for what they will be fined and incarcerated for doing - on their own private property.