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Anonymous
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# Posted: 7 May 2010 05:04pm
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Hey guys,,
We are planning on using our outdoor shower on our off grid property, what are the legalities of doing so ? In Colorado they are really funny about the water......
would wind up with someone filling claim to my body rinse /runoff rights,,
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larry
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# Posted: 7 May 2010 05:52pm
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please tell me you're joking....
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 7 May 2010 08:52pm
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hahahha seriously .. They could fine me and call it dumping of grey water.. lol
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 7 May 2010 08:53pm
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joking about filing a claim on my run off rights,, yes
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larry
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# Posted: 8 May 2010 10:31am
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WOW.. do you live in a communist state. i don't intend to make light of your question but i never heard of such a thing. it is concerning to me that you could be fined for showering and letting the water run to the ground. what would happen if you showered in the rain?
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 8 May 2010 01:06pm
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hahahah exactly Larry ..
People wash the grime off they cars everyday.. and it runs down the street..
i m sure we wont have any problems with the use of the outdoor shower..
But thought I best check with others ,, never know Colorado , and California. ... they perceive things a little differently than the rest of us in the nation do..
Was told at one point if we were caught harvesting rain water off the roof of a cabin we would be fined.
and if we were caught filling water jugs from the river to water freshly planted trees we would also be fined.
Apparently Arizona ? and Calif own every drop of water that hits the ground in Colo..
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lawnjoky
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# Posted: 18 May 2010 11:17pm
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Gee, I wonder what would happen if I was caught wizzing off the deck, a federal offense?
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 19 May 2010 12:16am
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Maybe not but if you wizzed in Colorado and it hit the ground it sounds like they would own it.
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lawnjoky
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# Posted: 31 May 2010 10:33am
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Good point Mike. I will be driving through CO in July and I will take ever possible opportunity to pooh out doors on the ground as an ack of civil disobience. I'll call it my own personal civil rights "movement".
Jocko
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 31 May 2010 05:23pm
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lol we heading out friday ,,cant wait !!
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SamH
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# Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:49pm
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I was in the dairy business for 30 years and the last 10 years had to go to an EPA class every year to keep our permit. Technically the federal EPA rules say you have to control any water run off that doesn't fall straight from the sky on to permanent grass or other vegetative covered ground. Have been told several times by EPA people if they wanted to push it you would be in violation of EPA regulations for washing a car, water running off any building or pavement or bare ground or yes, pee'n on the ground. So Technically an outside shower, not draining into a septic system would be in violation of EPA rules under the clean water act.
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tnky03
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# Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:32pm - Edited by: tnky03
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Sounds like "hogwash" to me, no pun intended. LOL I am certainly all for keeping our environment clean... but some of this stuff is ridiculous. Someone needs to alert everyone with outdoor pets and livestock so they can stop all the animal pee from soaking into the ground. Good grief! I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to get my Lab not to leave a "pile" out in our woods. Our government needs to get a life and allow us to live ours.
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ranchboss
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:57pm - Edited by: ranchboss
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He is not kidding I read it is against the law to catch rain water in colorado that a good reason why we just visit I'll stay in texas.and as for as epa well I could come up with some nice names for those letters. That government group has trashed this country.
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Off_grid_hunter
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:06pm
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I wonder who writes mother nature fines for allowing animals to pee and poop in public water ways..
Bunch of morons.
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jeffgreef
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# Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:32pm
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Where I am in California, the county allows 'camping' on your property with no approved water disposal system (septic) for up to 17 consecutive days. Basically means you can dump your XXXX on the ground four two weeks. Longer than that you have to have a septic system. Other counties must have similar rules, but I'll bet they vary a great deal from place to place.
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