damn thats a lot of storage wtf do you even DO with 13 MILLION gallons?

For an agricultural business, that's really not so much

No, Oregon is a communist state, well known in permaculture circles for at least a decade. They have legislated that all water is theirs, even if it falls from the sky. I know of one case where a guy built an (illegal) pond on his own property, allowed fire helicopters to land and drain much of the pond to fight forest fires, and then sued or arrested him for the illegal pond!