Amdel Pipeline Inc. v. State

REAVLEY, Justice.

This case presents a question of the statutory authority of the State Parks and Wildlife Department to require those persons dredging materials from state owned tidal lands to obtain permits and to pay for spoil removed by the dredging.

Amdel Pipeline Inc. (Amdel), acting pursuant to a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, removed materials which had silted into and filled the bottom of the approaches to its loading docks on the Neches River; the dredged material was deposited upon land owned by Amdel but subject to a perpetual spoil disposal easement of the…