Oregon Fines Man $1,500.00 with Probation for Retaining Runoff on HIS PROPERTY!

As natural farmers we all understand that retaining runoff on your property is beneficial to the landscape.  Allowing it to percolate into the ground recharges aquifers and helps streams run for longer and with larger volume.  Those who use these resources down stream BENEFIT from these activities.  Flows are stabilized and flooding is reduced.  This man is being harassed for retaining NON-PERENNIAL runoff.  For such a supposedly foreward thinking state, Oregon is basing this off of an antiquated law from the 1920's.  Wake up Oregon!  You have done a great deal for the local food movement and the ecological farming movement.  Its time to dump some of these antiquated laws.

http://earthfix.opb.org/water/article/the-state-of-oregon-vs-rain-man/