Urban Danger

[mutt]

rain catchment systems of any type are illegal in colorado

They changed the law in 2009. You can collect rainwater with these restrictions:

• Harvesting takes place on residential property
• The owner of the property has a legal entitlement to a well
• No water is provided in the area by a water district or a municipality
• The roof is the only location collecting rainwater
• The collected rainwater is put to uses explicitly permitted in the well permit

IMHO any laws making rain water collection illegal are ridiculous, but such things happen in a society that tries to assign ownership rights to everything imaginable.

[Beprepared]

I live in the mountains on a community well system. When you move in the neighborhood they lay down the rules, but so long as you don't use too much water, they don't care. Septic system all goes back where it came so WTF. Not so much for urban, but suburban/rural you could make solar stills with a bunch of ground space. Course your competing with growing space. Could even plumb stills into tanks/barrels.

[Wulf202]

They changed the law in 2009. You can collect rainwater with these restrictions:

• Harvesting takes place on residential property
• The owner of the property has a legal entitlement to a well
• No water is provided in the area by a water district or a municipality
• The roof is the only location collecting rainwater
• The collected rainwater is put to uses explicitly permitted in the well permit

IMHO any laws making rain water collection illegal are ridiculous, but such things happen in a society that tries to assign ownership rights to everything imaginable.

Thanks for the correction.