The Texas-Oklahoma border under Lake Texoma has been redrawn to return a pump station that helps provide drinking water to millions back to the Texas side after 24 years. The redrawn boundary, adopted by Oklahoma’s Contingency Review Board Oct.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham recently reached the agreement with Oklahoma to slightly re-draw the Texas-Oklahoma border deep under the surface of Lake Texoma. The end goal was to bring a water pumping station back online.

Texas has altered its boundary with Oklahoma in a 1.34 acre land swap that places a water pump station back in Texas territory. The land is located under Lake Texoma, where the water pump station is built, but neither state owns it. It is controlled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for the lake.

Texas just altered its border with Oklahoma. Well, a small sliver of it, anyway. And, no, Texas didn’t become any bigger. After years of dispute over how the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma should be drawn at the Red River, the two states reached an ...

State officials recently redrew an underwater Texas-Oklahoma boundary, officially returning the pump station on one of the nation’s largest manmade lakes fully back into the Lone Star State. The redrawing is part of an agreement that equally swaps 1.