Legal Opinion
Oklahoma Water Resources Board v. Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 4, 1969No. 42527PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McINERNEY, Justice.
This case presents competing claims by Oklahoma City (the City) and the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District (the District) to the water formerly flowing in the bed of East Elm Creek, a tributary of Little River. The waters of that creek became impounded when Elm Creek Dam was completed by the City in Oct. 1965, to form what is now called Stanley Draper Lake.
The City’s claim to the water is predicated on its ownership of nearly all the land lying within the watershed of the creek. This land was acquired by successive purchases beginning in 1958. Since the stream of…
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