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Old 01-09-2023, 01:40 PM   #381 (permalink)
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The stories I remember were about ponds rather than rain barrels. [citation needed]

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Old 01-09-2023, 06:42 PM   #382 (permalink)
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I endeavor to avoid standing water.

My sister's water tanks are out back.

I wonder how you could surreptitiously run the water from in front to a collection system in the back.
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Water management in AZ?

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Old 01-09-2023, 10:09 PM   #384 (permalink)
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In some of the communities that I have seen with anti rain collection statutes, they have retired people doing code enforcement looking for containers attached to the gutter downspouts or visible gutter ends with nothing attached.
First of all, what would be the reason to ban rain collection?
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From what I saw on-line, no states prohibit rain harvesting, and some states prohibit states from prohibiting it, but they can limit it.

They don't want visible big ugly barrels?

They don't want mosquitos [from ponds]?
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First of all, what would be the reason to ban rain collection?
Downstream water rights. It's complicated.
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Downstream water rights. It's complicated.
Give the man a cigar. Here 99% of the truckee river has water rights allocated and there is a minimum required to flow to the termination lake for endangered fish spawning all the way back to lake tahoe. Critical flow is measured at the inlet to said lake 24/7/365.
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First of all, what would be the reason to ban rain collection?
As the others mentioned - in some parts of the USA there are very complicated systems of water rights that can be sold separately from the physical land. What that means is that most people do not "own" the rainwater that falls on their land and must let it run off naturally. It is illegal to store rainwater in any way.

We also sell minerals rights separately from land. That can come back to haunt people that find out they legally have to allow someone that owns the mineral rights under their property to drill an oil or gas well or mine under their house. A homeowner might end up with one of these next to their house

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Rainwater collection is not illegal anywhere in my country, but AFAIK a permit is needed and taxes are charged in order to have a pond at home. Mineral rights seem to be similar to what is enforced in the United States.
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I have watched dozens of shed-building videos and this is definitely one of them. I received the notification after I saw a client and I was trying to figure out what to do next.

Staying in grad school?!

Don't mind if I do!

What is due next?

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