Water need opens debate on Cookietown Reservoir

 
By Ron Jackson
Published: August 30, 2008

RANDLETT — Ranchers, farmers and businessmen gathered Friday near Randlett to determine whether new life should be pumped into the construction of the proposed Cookietown Reservoir, a 12-mile body of water that would follow the Deep Red Run Creek in Cotton and Tillman counties.

The proposed Cookietown Reservoir has been on the planning books of the State Water Resources Board since 1978. A study done then indicat...


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