{"id":17433,"date":"2013-11-21T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2013-11-21T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:28:03","slug":"state-water-regulator-stands-by-aquifer-limits-amid-landowner-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/11\/21\/state-water-regulator-stands-by-aquifer-limits-amid-landowner-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"State Water Regulator Stands By Aquifer Limits Amid Landowner Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n

The popular Vendome Well at the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur, Okla., has its source in the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Sulphur resident Carolyn Sparks wanted the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to reconsider its decision to place a stricter limit on the amount of water that can be withdrawn from the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer in south-central Oklahoma.<\/p>

She told\u00a0The Ada News <\/em>reporter\u00a0<\/em>Eric Swanson\u00a0she was disappointed <\/a>when the board rejected her entreaty earlier this week.<\/p>\n

“Once again, they’ve taken my groundwater and given it to people downstream,” she said.<\/p>

\u2026 Krystina Phillips, an attorney representing the advocacy group Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer, said she was pleased with the board’s decision.<\/p>

“We think it’s the right one,” she said after the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>

In an earlier story from\u00a0The Ada News,\u00a0<\/em>Sparks expressed concern <\/a>she and her husband wouldn’t be allowed to use the amount of water needed to irrigate their pecan trees.<\/p>

As StateImpact reported in October<\/a>, determining the maximum annual yield (MAY) of Arbuckle-Simpson water use was a decade-long process that “came about \u2014 in part \u2014 because some landowners were concerned that limestone and sand mining was draining the aquifer too quickly.”<\/p>

The aquifer serves as the main source of municipal water for towns like Ada, Sulphur and Davis, whose city governments all support the MAY. The cap is .2 acre-feet per year per acre of land \u2014 about 65,000 gallons per acre.<\/p>

But the vote on the cap last month was clearly not the end of the fight.<\/p>\n

The board’s action Tuesday clears the way for the courts to review the MAY order. \u2026 Organizations opposing the order are seeking a court review because the believe the MAY violates landowners’ property rights.<\/p>

Both sides are awaiting a ruling on whether the case should be transferred from Oklahoma County to Pontotoc County.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As StateImpact reported in October, determining the maximum annual yield (MAY) of Arbuckle-Simpson water use was a decade-long process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":17440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[429,509,444],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433"}],"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=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17453,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/17453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}