Be fine if it can go down all the way. Seriously thinking short chains to the store welded on top of a few tent spikes about a foot long. It does go dry when the guy upstream uses up the water and it does no flow (no a dam thing I can do about it either)
wow, i would have figured local and state laws would give you some recourse. Here, in backwards 1950s Indiana, even we have laws that prevent and protect against that.