Tribes drop claim to existing permits in Oklahoma water rights case

 
BY MICHAEL KIMBALL Staff Writer mkimball@opubco.com
Published: January 27, 2012

Existing water use permits are no longer under dispute in an amended lawsuit filed Thursday by the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations over water rights in southeast Oklahoma .

The tribes are suing Oklahoma City and the state over water rights to the Kiamichi, Clear Boggy and Muddy Boggy basins and the Atoka Pipeline, but until Thursday had not explicitly excluded claims to existing permits in one portion of the suit....


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