{"id":1776,"date":"2011-11-03T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2011-11-03T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:27:39","slug":"state-water-plans-cost-is-questioned-science-criticized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/11\/03\/state-water-plans-cost-is-questioned-science-criticized\/","title":{"rendered":"State Water Plan&#8217;s Cost is Questioned, Science Criticized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1781\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scutter\/4759470528\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1781\" title=\"Sardis Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/11\/sardis-lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/11\/sardis-lake.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/11\/sardis-lake-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Scutter \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A water consultant disputed the cost of the state&#39;s 50-year water plan at a legislative committee meeting Wednesday. He also said the plan was rigged to allow the sale of water from Sardis Lake in southeastern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>A petroleum geologist from Tulsa questioned Oklahoma\u2019s 50-year water plan at a legislative panel on Wednesday.<\/p><p><em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s Michael McNutt <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahomas-water-plan-draws-criticism\/article\/3619401?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Newsok%2FNews%2FPolitics+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+news+%3E%3E+politics%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe got sold a $16 million lemon,\u201d Robert \u201cBob\u201d Jackman told members of the Joint Legislative Water Study Committee. \u201cThis water plan has got as much guidance in it as a pop-bottle rocket.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20111103_16_A18_OLHMIY937543&rss_lnk=12\"><!--more-->From<\/a> the <em>Tulsa World<\/em>\u2019s Barbara Hoberock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Comprehensive Water Plan, adopted by the Water Resources Board last month, was rigged and gamed from the beginning to sell water to Texas and capture water from Sardis Lake for Oklahoma City use, Jackman said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Jackman, who said he has worked as a water consultant for 15 years, said the water plan lacked science and that the people who worked on it came from the \u201cdemand\u201d side, not the \u201csupply\u201d side, the Oklahoman reported.<\/p><p>J.D. Strong, the board\u2019s executive director, denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll the allegations raised by Jackman are false,\u201d Strong said, according to the <em>Oklahoman<\/em>. He said the water plan eventually will cost nearly $12 million \u2014 with about 60 percent of the money state funds and 40 percent federal dollars \u2014 and that nearly half his agency&#8217;s 100 employees are water scientists.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Overall, the 3,000-page water plan, which took five years to draft, received good comments from others, according to the <em>Oklahoman<\/em>.<\/p><p>The water study committee will make recommendations to the legislature, which will consider it when developing Oklahoma\u2019s water policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petroleum geologist from Tulsa questioned Oklahoma\u2019s 50-year water plan at a legislative panel on Wednesday.The Oklahoman\u2019s Michael McNutt reports: \u201cWe got sold a $16 million lemon,\u201d Robert \u201cBob\u201d Jackman told members of the Joint Legislative Water Study Committee. \u201cThis water plan has got as much guidance in it as a pop-bottle rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[161,162,163,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}