Court sides with Oklahoma

paden-cash · 2013-06-14T03:52:00Z

June 13, 2013 COURT SIDES WITH OKLAHOMA IN RED RIVER DISPUTEAssociated Press Thu Jun 13, 2013, 09:21 AM CDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected Texas’ claim that it has a right under a 30-year-old agreement to cross the border with Oklahoma for water to serve the fast-growing Fort Worth area. The justices on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that said Oklahoma laws intended to block Texas’ water claims are valid.The case concerns a dispute over access to southeastern Oklahoma tributaries of the Red River that separates Oklahoma and Texas. The Tarrant Regional Water District serving an 11-county area in north-central Texas including Fort Worth and Arlington wants to buy 150 billion gallons of water and says the four-state Red River Compact gives it the right to do so. Arkansas and Louisiana are the other participating states and they are siding with Oklahoma.I guess Oklahoma's strategy is to "starve them out" of water...Oklahoma and Texas have been feuding over everything over the years. From boundaries to the riparian accretions in the Red River. This water-rights issue is just another example of why Oklahomans and Texans don't play well with each other. Once the Governor of Oklahoma showed up at the river with a shootin' iron and the National Guard to declare martial-law over a toll bridge:The Texas-Oklahoma "Red River War"

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Center Pivot Irrigation

> ...but wouldn't phasing out center-pivot irrigation and switching to drip save lots of water?
Perhaps, but any "saved" water would be used locally to open up more acreage.

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What is the flow on your flood in cubic feet per second (CFS)? Someone told me that the DFW Metro area needs about 50,000 CFS. We put a small craft warning on the Arkansas River at 75,000 CFS.

Posted : June 17, 2013 7:25 am

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I Don't See A Real Problem, Dam The Red River West Of OK

"Oil is part of the problem"

I have clients that put in deep wells for the purpose of selling water to the Haynesvlille Shale operations. The tankers run 24/7.

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