{"id":17128,"date":"2013-10-31T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=17128"},"modified":"2013-10-31T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:32:51","slug":"opponents-of-arbuckle-simpson-withdrawal-limit-ask-for-court-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/31\/opponents-of-arbuckle-simpson-withdrawal-limit-ask-for-court-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Opponents of Arbuckle-Simpson Withdrawal Limit Ask for Court Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17151\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"OWRB Executive Director J.D. Strong (left) addresses members of the water board at its Oct. 23 meeting.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/OWRBpic.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17151\" alt=\"OWRB Executive Director J.D. Strong (left) addresses members of the water board at its Oct. 23 meeting.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/OWRBpic-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">OWRB Executive Director J.D. Strong (left) addresses members of the water board at its Oct. 23 meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Just one week after the Oklahoma Water Resources Board <a title=\"StateImpactLink\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/24\/after-decade-of-consideration-state-caps-withdrawals-from-oklahomas-most-sensitive-aquifer\/\" target=\"_blank\">decided to cap<\/a> the amount of\u00a0water that can be taken out of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer, opponents of the move are continuing the fight \u2014 in court.<\/p><p>The Ada News&#8217;\u00a0<a title=\"AdaNewsLink\" href=\"http:\/\/theadanews.com\/local\/x2112909432\/Arbuckle-Simpson-fight-shifts-to-the-courtroom\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Swanson reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several organizations that oppose the MAY [maximum annual yield] are attacking the order on a variety of grounds, including a complaint that the board relied on bad science and incomplete evidence, according to a copy of the organization&#8217;s motion seeking judicial review. The group also contends that the order violates landowners&#8217; property rights because it limits the amount of groundwater that can be transferred from the aquifer each year.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Supporters also asked for the court review, which has been filed but hasn&#8217;t been assigned a court date:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMany of the documents included in CPASA\u2019s Motion to Include are scientific studies of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer and relate directly to the points that the corporate special interest groups challenge,\u201d the organization said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->In an interview with StateImpact from mid-October, Oklahoma Water Resources Board Executive Director J.D. Strong said the scientific study that led to the new limits took more than 5 years to complete, and opponents already aired their concerns about it at previous hearings \u2014 and were rebuffed.<\/p><p>&#8220;The Water Resources Board staff is extremely confident in the study and the science, more so than any maximum annual yield study that&#8217;s ever been done by this agency,&#8221; Strong says. &#8220;There was a lot more time, a lot more money, a lot more scientists and research that went into developing the models, the science, the data to support this maximum annual yield.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of the move are continuing the fight \u2014 in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":17151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491,16],"tags":[429,509,444,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17128"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17158,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128\/revisions\/17158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}