“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!
My understanding is that laws of that nature are pretty common out West. Not so much east of the Mississippi.
commie water take over..we have the same problem here but it has to be inground water. small ponds, ect...wonder what they do about swimming pools?
Washington state too. I tell my new neighbors here in KY that you have to get a permit to save rain water in Seattle and the stares of disbelief are comical.
Out here many of my neighbors have ponds on their property. No small number are stocked with catfish. Watering your garden is pretty cheap here.
And this is one of the reasons I left the Seattle hell hole.
“But Tom Paul, administrator of the Oregon Water Resources Department, claims that Harrington has been violating the state’s water use law by diverting water from streams running into the Big Butte River.”
also,”Yet Paul admitted the 1925 law does apply because, he said, Harrington constructed dams to block a tributary to the Big Butte, which Medford uses for its water supply.”
This is not clear cut at all.
When "Little People" tried to fight back? So they can say "Because We Can"?
This is the type of conviction that the jury system was designed to prevent. Just a simple “Not Guilty!” should have remedied this whole situation.
What a fked up state !
Can’t do that in Colorado.
I think the creator of rain would disagree with these dipships...If they own the water falling from the sky, they must also own the tornados, hurricains and hail....such a destructive government needs to be changed. yesterday.
I think that is the point of the article, the Oregon water laws are absurd.
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