Texas Land Commissioner Buckingham redraws Texas-Oklahoma border to ensure safe water for 2 million Texans

The Texas Land Commissioner announced the Red River Boundary Commission has redrawn the Texas-Oklahoma bound successful bid to guarantee harmless h2o for much than 2 cardinal Texans.

The redraw volition unafraid and marque disposable astir 30% of the drinking h2o proviso for the surrounding area.

"As Texas Land Commissioner, it is my grant to enactment connected behalf of each Texans and bring solutions to the array to payment our large state. This redrawn bound enactment volition guarantee that millions of northbound Texans' h2o comes from a unafraid root successful Texas," said Commissioner Dawn Buckingham. 

"I americium arrogant of the GLO’s surveying squad for playing specified a important relation successful settling this bound contented by utilizing their mapping skills and expertise. Surveying has been a captious portion of the GLO since the constitution of this bureau successful 1836."

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In a press release regarding the move, it was explained that the displacement was prompted owed to a find successful 2009 of a pump presumption that was required to halt cognition to prohibit further instauration of Zebra mussels successful Texas.

The mussels are believed to person antagonistic impacts owed to powerfulness plants spending millions removing them from clogged h2o intakes.

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It was during this intermission successful cognition that a question arose regarding wherever the pump presumption was located. If the pump was successful Oklahoma, operating it could interruption national instrumentality prohibiting the interstate transport of zebra mussels.

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"It was determined that the pump presumption that provides drinking water to definite parts of northbound Texas was inadvertently built straddling the authorities lines of Texas and Oklahoma," it said. 

"On October 30, 2024, the Red River Boundary Commission, composed of Texas and Oklahoma commissions, executed the Amended and Restated Texoma Area Boundary Agreement to close the bound contented and guarantee the pump presumption is located wholly successful Texas," according to the statement.