[Rockhounds] This Is Why It’s Illegal to Collect Rainwater in Some States

[Dora Smith]

See what I mean?  Only one person besides myself ever Read. The. 
Article.   Why would anyone be talking about collecting rainwater if 
they knew it was never at issue.

Yours,

Dora Smith


On 11/29/2018 6:18 AM, Stephen Shimatzki wrote:
> In Toledo, ( lucas county Ohio) they tax you on the size of your house and
> how much impenterable surface area you have.  The idea being that rain then
> runs into the storm sewers then eventually to the lake.  So they argue
> someone has to pay for that system...   I argued that i had rain barrels
> and overflow to the sandy/grassy back yard so no runoff going to the storm
> sewers from my property but was still taxed.  Btw, that tax is added on the
> water bill.
>
> Glad we moved to the country, city folks are crazy, i think its from all
> the lack of rain in their drinking water.  ;)
>
> -Steve
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 3:01 PM Don Halterman <donhalterman at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>    Indeed it's a rural western thing.  In Nevada I have the right to
>> drill a domestic well with rights to 2 acre-feet a year, which is pretty
>> generous.  However I do not have the right to impound any flowing
>> surface water--not that there is any except during spring runoff.  I
>> also cannot collect rainwater--all 11 inches of it a year in Elko
>> County--though the state website says that this not generally enforced.
>>
>> LOL Kitty I don't think Hawaii would have any water issues... plenty of
>> rain water there I'm sure.  :)
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>> On 11/28/2018 10:48 AM, Tim Fisher wrote:
>>> I hadn't even read the article but I immediately knew what it would have
>> to say about Oregon. And I also knew that the news media had screwed that
>> one up, royally. He can't build ponds to collect the water without numerous
>> state and federal permits, which for that size pond would easily take a
>> year and thousands of dollars to obtain. Somehow this got twisted into
>> "collecting rainwater is illegal". Building structures to impound a stream,
>> spring, seep, wetland, surface runoff, or just plain old rain from the sky
>> without any permits or water rights whatsoever is as illegal as it gets in
>> the west. Even a removal/fill permit (not necessarily from the Corps, that
>> usually applies in flowing water or wetland situations) is necessary to
>> move that much dirt (in our county anything deeper than 2 feet). Googling
>> it, even Snopes has weighed in. Which is news to me, and a great summary of
>> exactly while the guy had the book thrown at him.
>>>
>> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-gets-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-own-property/
>>>
>>
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