Tex. Water Code § 11.087
This is the official text of Tex. Water Code § 11.087, part of Texas’s Water Code — governs water rights and water resource management.
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§ 11.087. DIVERSION OF WATER ON INTERNATIONAL STREAM.
Official statutory text
(a) When storm water or floodwater is released from a dam or reservoir on an international stream and the water is designated for use or storage downstream by a specified user who is legally entitled to receive it, no other person may store, divert, appropriate, or use the water or interfere with its passage downstream.
(b) The commission may make and enforce rules and orders to implement the provisions of this section, including rules and orders designed to:
(1) establish an orderly system for water releases and diversions in order to protect vested rights and to avoid the loss of released water;
(2) prescribe the time that releases of water may begin and end;
(3) determine the proportionate quantities of the released water in transit and the water that would have been flowing in the stream without the addition of the released water;
(4) require each owner or operator of a dam or reservoir on the stream between the point of release and the point of destination to allow free passage of the released water in transit; and
(5) establish other requirements the commission considers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this section.
(c) Orders made by the commission to effectuate its rules under this section shall be mailed by certified mail to each diverter of water and to each reservoir owner on the stream between the point of release and the point of destination of the released water as shown by the records of the commission.
(d) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 60(a)(1), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
(b) The commission may make and enforce rules and orders to implement the provisions of this section, including rules and orders designed to:
(1) establish an orderly system for water releases and diversions in order to protect vested rights and to avoid the loss of released water;
(2) prescribe the time that releases of water may begin and end;
(3) determine the proportionate quantities of the released water in transit and the water that would have been flowing in the stream without the addition of the released water;
(4) require each owner or operator of a dam or reservoir on the stream between the point of release and the point of destination to allow free passage of the released water in transit; and
(5) establish other requirements the commission considers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this section.
(c) Orders made by the commission to effectuate its rules under this section shall be mailed by certified mail to each diverter of water and to each reservoir owner on the stream between the point of release and the point of destination of the released water as shown by the records of the commission.
(d) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1072, Sec. 60(a)(1), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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