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MATADOR PIPELINES v. WATER RESOURCES BD.

No. 63960.

742 P.2d 15 (1987)

MATADOR PIPELINES, INC., Appellant, v. The OKLAHOMA WATER RESOURCES BOARD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crow & Dunlevy by Arlen E. Fielden, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Dean A. Couch, Gen. Counsel, Oklahoma Water Resources Bd., Oklahoma City, for appellee.

HODGES, Justice.

Matador Pipelines, Inc. (appellant or Matador) owns and operates a crude oil pipeline approximately nine miles northwest of Fairview, Oklahoma. In May 1983, the pipeline sustained a leak causing crude oil to flow into an unnamed tributary of Barney Creek and into Barney Creek. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board (appellee or Board) was informed by a landowner on whose property the pipeline ran that oil was entering Barney Creek. The Board reported...

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