Did You Know ... It Is Now ILLEGAL To Collect Rainwater On YOUR OWN Property?

[ARC]

My girl has a small garden... and many types of plants... and boy are they thirsty.
We have an aquifer water well here...
but we do not like to take from it unless we absolutely have to... as many homes around us are also using the same source.
We have one guttered 55 gallon blue plastic drum...
it serves her needs and she never has to take from aquifer.

One word...
Perfect.

 

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[BigWaveDave]

Allow me to pull these barrels out of my archives....
My wife is the artist, we sold over 500 in less than 3 years.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Very nice Dave, your wife has talent!

 

[Nitric]

Haven't read the whole thread yet! Yes! We wanted to put in a very small pond, that collected water from the yard and down spouts! Not aloud in this area. Im talking small pond, 15 to 20 ft in dia.

 

[Chadeaux]

Very nice indeed Dave!

I noticed someone has confused collecting rain water with stopping up or damming a stream. Not the same thing, and here is why:

This individual is stopping runoff, not stopping a stream. True, the water is not reaching the stream, but again he is not interfering in any way with the free flow of the stream.

Today, there are folks being fined for the rainwater runoff from their property - mostly cattlemen. So, what way do the gooberment leaders want it? Both. The want to fine you if you do, or they can fine you when you don't.

Hope that's clear enough.

 

[Limitool]

Haven't read the whole thread yet! Yes! We wanted to put in a very small pond, that collected water from the yard and down spouts! Not aloud in this area. Im talking small pond, 15 to 20 ft in dia.

Dave: First off I totally agree with T.H..... Wife is very talented and nice barrels.

Nitric: Just do what I have done here at my home. Most all the gutters downspouts here go down into the ground about 1ft. and are then run into 3" PVC for about 80-90 ft. to dump over the ridge (or into a small pond....?)

 

[Oregon Viking]

Yep. Oregon is going down the drain......

 

[Chadeaux]

Allow me to pull these barrels out of my archives....
My wife is the artist, we sold over 500 in less than 3 years.

Again, nice work ... but what does something like that go for?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Again, nice work ... but what does something like that go for?

I bought a 50 gal barrol for $15.00 no painting....

 

[BigWaveDave]

(My cost was $10 per barrel, strictly food grade, no chemicals...)My blue barrels, no paint, were $49, that was with the spigot, overflows, and collection screen installed.. and that price was good if you didn't have downspouts, and needed a larger catchment area. Primed and painted one color(ready for your own artwork) $69.. Custom orders started at $99, but based on time and detail, as much as $149... We also offered free delivery to our local area. We had a website, coupled with our spot at the local Green Market every Saturday morning, along with other venues... I miss the business sometimes, but when I am detecting on Saturdays, I don't miss it at all!