Tarrant Regional Water District v. Gragg

ORDER GRANTING EMERGENCY RELIEF

Tarrant Regional Water District (District) asserts that it is a political subdivision of the State organized under provisions of the constitution and the Water Code and, as such, is a “governmental unit” as defined in section 101.001 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code. TEX.Crv.PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. § 101.001(3)(B) (Vernon Supp.1998). The District owns and operates the Richland-Chambers Reservoir and the Cedar Creek Reservoir.

Billy Harden Gragg and others (Plaintiffs) are landowners in Freestone and Anderson counties who have sued the District asserting…