Meanwhile,
DOE now requires WATER RIGHTS for a rainwater catchment system, like the ones
which are the mainstay of rural NZ, AU, Caribbean, Bahamas, Polynesia and
Hawaii etc etc. (This is the opposite of the DOE stormwater management philosophy, which requires catching stormwater - and slowly infiltrating it - which is what
domestic catchment systems do)!  Jefferson County used to allow catchment
systems, and they eliminated ALL the problems mentioned above - THEREFORE they
made almost ANY parcel habitable - HORRORS, imagine that, people could live on
the land they spent a lifetime paying for.

Futurewise is probably behind this DOE criminal
depravity. Previously they pawned this interference in property rights on the
state Health Dept. who claimed that "health" reasons precluded
domestic use of rainwater. Gimme a break, half the
World uses catchment - didn't these people ever hear of filters and UV ???   Now DOE has elected itself the big Kahuna of depravity, at least we now know who was behind it
all along..................Ken

It's all just hunky dory, but fat chance you be able to drill where you need to
- I just went thru this:

The well cannot be:

*within 100' of the boundary

*within 100' of electric transformer (or any POTENTIAL source of pollution such
as roads)

*within 50' of the exit of the soil line from the house

*in a wetland

*within 100' of a drainfield or it's
reserve

*on terrain unsuitable for a drill rig

***** etc etc etc ( is
anyplace left - yeah, but it's not where the water is - probably )

On 6/12/07, Norman MacLeod
<[email-masked] >
wrote:

From: Judi Stewart [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:16 PM

To: [email-masked]

Subject: OWUA - "Learn to Dowse" reminder

Pat Delafield will be the guest
speaker on Wednesday, June 13th. Come at 7 pm to the Chimacum
Grange on Rhody Dr.  Pat has traveled to many
interesting places in order to locate water and minerals. Pat will educate and
entertain you. She'll talk about her experiences and tell you how you can find
water on your own property. Please bring your friends and neighbors.
Refreshments will be served.

"Aquifer:
a mysterious, magical and poorly defined area beneath the surface of the earth
that either yields or withholds vast or lesser quantities of standing/flowing
water, the quantity and/or quality of which is dependent on who is describing
it or how much money may be at stake."

R. Radden,
"Watershed Resources", Jan. 2002