Farm Bureau Wins Again on Surface Water Appeal.

This week the Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi held that TCEQ overstepped its authority by picking and choosing wins and losers when it honored a superior surface water right holder’s priority call on the water.

When TCEQ honored the priority call it did so and said, but this doesn’t apply to municipal water supplies nor to electric companies. The Farm Bureau sued because Water Code doesn’t allow a sub prioritization like this among junior watger rights holders.  

TCEQ v. Farm Bureau   Agrilife Agricultural Law Blog