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

[Linda St-Cyr]

I found the emails on collecting rainwater (a mineral in liquid form) to be
extremely interesting.  My thanks to the people who continued that topic in
spite of the pushback.

Linda St-Cyr 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:19 AM
To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] This Is Why It’s Illegal to Collect Rainwater in
Some States

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-ra
inwater-on-his-own-property/
>>>
>>
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