https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2017/04/20/rainwater-harvesting/
Oh damn. Ive been told that so many times. Doesnt look to be true.
Mattick points to a Jackson County case in which a landowner was jailed for storing rainwater that he didn’t have permits for as the source of the rumors that Oregon doesn’t allow rainwater catchment. In that case the landowner, Gary Harrington, built three reservoirs with dams so large they can be seen from high-elevation aerial photos, he says.
According to the
Medford Mail-Tribune, Harrington’s illegal reservoirs were storing enough water “to fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
Once the water hits the ground, Mattick says, it’s public water, and someone else might be expecting it. In other words, landowners nearby might have had the right to the water Harrington was storing and weren’t getting it.
Mattick says that after rainwater harvesting became a legal issue in Colorado in the 1990s — it was illegal to collect rainwater in barrels there until 2016 — Oregon was motivated to amend its own laws. “Prior to that it didn’t say anything about collecting rainwater,” he says of the Oregon law. “It was just silent.”
shit.. the more you know. if oregon sales were low - thats likely why lol.
