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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: ukgimp on September 18, 2017, 09:42:46 PM
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Weird. Just weird
https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/909443151923789824
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Sounds like a case of state government favoring Big Business over the individual to me. I've read that there are some places where they have made it illegal to trap your own rain water too.
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>some places where they have made it illegal to trap your own rain water too.
I think that's just about anywhere under the Bureau Of Land Management or areas the feed the main rivers out west.
>solar
I don't know about being mandated to connect to the grid, but IF a system is grid-connected using what is termed "smart inverters" then they must shut down when the power goes out or they will feed back into the system and have the potential to electrocute linemen (who think the wires have been disconnected) -or supply power to storm-damaged, dangling wires.
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Just checked the local law here on rain water. Looks like it has been legal in California since 2012.
http://www.rainwaterharvesting.com/articles/californias-rainwater-recapture-act-state-residents-can-capture-use-rainwater-harvesting-12
Californians can now legally capture and use rainwater harvested from rooftops. The the California Legislature enacted the "Rainwater Capture Act of 2012" [2012 Cal. Stats. ch. 537, Sec. 2.] (the Act). This Act exempts the capture and use of rainwater from rooftops by private and public entities from the State Water Resources Control Board's (SWRCB) permitting authority over appropriations of water.
Seems like a reasonable thing to me.
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Yeah, the interweb went nuts when a homeowner in Oregon(?) was arrested for collecting water. States hurried to cover their political asses with modifications to their water rights laws.
We had a thread on it here ...somewhere.