Because the key to small government is criminalizing rain water collection

[SwimExpert]

Swim, learn something about western states water laws. Since there are private properties that are many thousands of acres in extant, the runoff was part of prior water rights laws. You can save rooftop water. You cannot save the water that falls on your acreage. If the person downstream has prior water rights, you have no right to that water.

It's not that I don't know. It's just that it's bullshit.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Well, this old Liberal is not afraid to touch it. Typical GOP tactics to prevent homeowners from any form of independence. Look at who hates solar energy, and who legislates to prevent the homeowner from disconnecting from the grid. And who hates the idea of individual wind mills? So, in Colorado, you cannot collect rain off your own roof. Amazing. And amazing that the GOP would do this. Make it an issue, make Colorado blue!

Oregon has the same rain water policy and it's run by Democrats.

No, it does not. Look up the law before making such statements.

State Rainwater Harvesting Laws and Legislation

Oregon

Rainwater harvesting is allowed in Oregon, but may only be done from roof surfaces. Oregon Revised Statute §455.060 allows for alternate methods of construction of rainwater harvesting systems. The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) has approved the use of rainwater harvesting systems as an alternate method to the state plumbing code. It created methods for both potable and non-potable systems.

Senate Bill 79 (2009) directs the BCD to increase energy efficiency, by including rainwater harvesting, in new and repaired buildings.

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

 

[Agit8r]

Sonnenberg... good name for a fascist.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, this old Liberal is not afraid to touch it. Typical GOP tactics to prevent homeowners from any form of independence. Look at who hates solar energy, and who legislates to prevent the homeowner from disconnecting from the grid. And who hates the idea of individual wind mills? So, in Colorado, you cannot collect rain off your own roof. Amazing. And amazing that the GOP would do this. Make it an issue, make Colorado blue!

Oregon has the same rain water policy and it's run by Democrats.

No, it does not. Look up the law before making such statements.

State Rainwater Harvesting Laws and Legislation

Oregon

Rainwater harvesting is allowed in Oregon, but may only be done from roof surfaces. Oregon Revised Statute §455.060 allows for alternate methods of construction of rainwater harvesting systems. The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) has approved the use of rainwater harvesting systems as an alternate method to the state plumbing code. It created methods for both potable and non-potable systems.

Senate Bill 79 (2009) directs the BCD to increase energy efficiency, by including rainwater harvesting, in new and repaired buildings.

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

(CNSNews.com) – 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.

“The government is bullying,” Harrington told CNSNews.com in an interview Thursday.

“They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies. So, we as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we’ll prevail,” he said.

The court has given Harrington two weeks to report to the Jackson County Jail to begin serving his sentence.

You don't fill reservoirs from your roof. As I stated before, prior water rights in most western states includes the water that falls on your acreage.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Well, this old Liberal is not afraid to touch it. Typical GOP tactics to prevent homeowners from any form of independence. Look at who hates solar energy, and who legislates to prevent the homeowner from disconnecting from the grid. And who hates the idea of individual wind mills? So, in Colorado, you cannot collect rain off your own roof. Amazing. And amazing that the GOP would do this. Make it an issue, make Colorado blue!

So what republican is telling you that you absolutely cannot put solar panels on your house?

The problem is you want all kinds of government giveaways and tax credits for doing it.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Well, this old Liberal is not afraid to touch it. Typical GOP tactics to prevent homeowners from any form of independence. Look at who hates solar energy, and who legislates to prevent the homeowner from disconnecting from the grid. And who hates the idea of individual wind mills? So, in Colorado, you cannot collect rain off your own roof. Amazing. And amazing that the GOP would do this. Make it an issue, make Colorado blue!

Oregon has the same rain water policy and it's run by Democrats.

No, it does not. Look up the law before making such statements.

State Rainwater Harvesting Laws and Legislation

Oregon

Rainwater harvesting is allowed in Oregon, but may only be done from roof surfaces. Oregon Revised Statute §455.060 allows for alternate methods of construction of rainwater harvesting systems. The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) has approved the use of rainwater harvesting systems as an alternate method to the state plumbing code. It created methods for both potable and non-potable systems.

Senate Bill 79 (2009) directs the BCD to increase energy efficiency, by including rainwater harvesting, in new and repaired buildings.

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

(CNSNews.com) – 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.

“The government is bullying,” Harrington told CNSNews.com in an interview Thursday.

“They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies. So, we as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we’ll prevail,” he said.

The court has given Harrington two weeks to report to the Jackson County Jail to begin serving his sentence.

You don't fill reservoirs from your roof. As I stated before, prior water rights in most western states includes the water that falls on your acreage.

Yeah Oregon is a republican stronghold

It's the wacko leftist environmentalists who want to tell people what they can and can't do on their own property

 

[hadit]

Well, this old Liberal is not afraid to touch it. Typical GOP tactics to prevent homeowners from any form of independence. Look at who hates solar energy, and who legislates to prevent the homeowner from disconnecting from the grid. And who hates the idea of individual wind mills? So, in Colorado, you cannot collect rain off your own roof. Amazing. And amazing that the GOP would do this. Make it an issue, make Colorado blue!

Oregon has the same rain water policy and it's run by Democrats.

It's only bad when Republicans do it. Come on, get with the program!

 

[jon_berzerk]

in Colorado

--LOL

one of the unexpected consequences of legalizing weed

--LOL

other libtard states like Illinois passed laws

making it possible to tax land owners for rain that falls in their property

sweet huh

 

[Wildman]

Never knew water law existed before then

when i was in real estate in Commierado, the shit i learned about water rights and law was so mind blowing, water rights could be passed on from generation to generation, a person could buy a piece of property and not own the water on or in it.