There were fewer water violations by cannabis operators this year compared to the previous year in Jackson County, Oregon, according to the state’s Water Resources Department.
Scott Prose, assistant watermaster for the southwest region at the agency, said legal marijuana operators are largely responsible for the drop because of better education about water laws, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reported.
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Thirty-one of the 146 cannabis grows Prose has visited in the past year have had water violations, he told the Jackson County Board of Commissioners.
“The education, the work you guys have done – just code enforcement, just the collaboration – all of that is adding up, in my opinion, to a pretty big decrease, which is great,” Prose said.
With collaboration from local and federal law enforcement, Oregon regulators have been cracking down on illicit cannabis grows, which are suspected of water theft, in recent
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