Pay To Pump Water From Your Well?

[rpm]

A few months ago the State of Texas forced my county to form a water control district to save us from the evil oil companies using excessive water to fracture the Barnett Shale. We either form one, or they will form one for us. A district was formed but we were assured it would not affect private citizens, only save us from the evil oil companies.

Today I'm reading the local paper and notice a blurb in uberfine print in the public notices. The newly formed WCD will be setting rules and fees for water use, including meters on water wells and fees starting 30 cents per 1000 gallons used from all wells. They will also be setting fines and penalties for non-compliance.

I will soon be paying for water I pump from my own well for my own private use. This is insane!

Now before you go screaming about the evil liberals taxing us out of existence, this system was put in place by our conservative republican controlled government. Thank you Big Brother. How long before you charge me to breathe air?

[SkyRock]

get a lawyer and fight the hell out of it.  That kinda crap would never work here in Mississippi, folks would get shot.

[FiLtH]

 Unheard of.

[Chalenge]

There are no more Conservatives. Reagan was the last one.

[SD67]

That's OK they've found a way to tax the RAIN here in Australia...
Weirdos...

[Angrist]

There are no more Conservatives. Reagan was the last one.

Amen Brother.....Amen

[crockett]

I agree with SR.. get a class action lawsuit going with members of your community.. No way would they stand a snowballs chance in hell of keeping that ordnance. What service are they providing that they think they can actually tax you on?

[culero]

So, there's a thousand square mile aquifer, with a thousand one square mile landowners above it. 10 per cent of them start pumping 60 per cent of all outflow from the aquifer, which reduces the amount of water available to all landowners.

Is this equitable? Should the ones using the most be able to continue to do so ad infinatum even to the point of aquifer depletion?

How about a river. Should folks upstream be able to dam and divert most of the water flow without regard to the rights of those folks downstream?

Water rights are about more than the rights of the property owner who is adjacent to water. Its a legitimate area for the state to be the arbiter of.

[rpm]

Culero, it was proposed to be a restriction on commercial use. As soon as they got it in place, suddenly it is for commercial AND personal use.

You know, the old bait and switch.

It's just another way to milk more money out of you. Nobody owns anything in Texas anymore. You are just the taxpayer of record until you can't afford to pay. Then they take it away and sell it to the next fool.

Houston, Travis, Bowie and Crockett are doing synchronized spinning in their graves.

[Xargos]

A law will be past that we must all wear masks for our own protection because of pollution.  That the effects of pollution are causing a strain on our hospitals.  Then they'll put a meter on the masks and tax us on how much air we breath.

P.S.  RPM, I really hope you guys fight them.

[SD67]

They don't need a mask, all they need is the census data. From that they can extrapolate the approximate usage of oxygen and tax accordingly

[Xargos]

They don't need a mask, all they need is the census data. From that they can extrapolate the approximate usage of oxygen and tax accordingly

No, they'll want to know how active you are so those statistics can be used for other things.  Such as, they'll know how much of a threat you are to law enforcement in the future if you're in good shape.

[Reschke]

They have been doing that in the Houston area for a couple of years now. I went to a customers office a couple of years ago and they were having to wait on the county to come out and install the meter on their pre-existing drilled well that his dad drilled about 25 years before.

[CAP1]

A few months ago the State of Texas forced my county to form a water control district to save us from the evil oil companies using excessive water to fracture the Barnett Shale. We either form one, or they will form one for us. A district was formed but we were assured it would not affect private citizens, only save us from the evil oil companies.

Today I'm reading the local paper and notice a blurb in uberfine print in the public notices. The newly formed WCD will be setting rules and fees for water use, including meters on water wells and fees starting 30 cents per 1000 gallons used from all wells. They will also be setting fines and penalties for non-compliance.

I will soon be paying for water I pump from my own well for my own private use. This is insane!

Now before you go screaming about the evil liberals taxing us out of existence, this system was put in place by our conservative republican controlled government. Thank you Big Brother. How long before you charge me to breathe air?

not trying to be sarcastic, but are you really surprised?

[john9001]

i have a well but i also have a septic system, should i get paid for recharging the aquifer? But more important, i live on top of a mountain, that water comes from god.