Showing posts with label Water Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water Rights. Show all posts

Rainwater Crimes: Man Gets Jail & Fines For Collecting On His Own Land


A case of the government seeking money and bondage from rural residents by purposely misconstruing an old law & bending definitions.


Gary Harrington had no idea that he was a water criminal under an obscure 1925 law until 2002 when state bureaucrats told him that his three reservoirs were illegal collection devices that were a crime against his community.