{"id":1467,"date":"2014-10-10T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2014-10-10T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:02:03","slug":"whose-water-is-it-anyway-part-4-final-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/whose-water-is-it-anyway-part-4-final-one\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOSE WATER IS IT ANYWAY? &#8211; part 4 &#038; final one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(4) PERCOLATING GROUNDWATER &#8211; finish &#8211; rule of capture for water as for oil &amp; gas.\u00a0 Permits drainage from underneath a neighbor&#8217;s property (&amp; vice versa) as long as it occurs from a legal location.\u00a0 Water depends on a groundwater district &amp; this district dictates distances from property lines.\u00a0 If no district then that not required.\u00a0 Texas law imposes damages if drainage causes wastes, injures a neighbor or causes subsidence.\u00a0 (5)\u00a0 WATER IN UNDERGROUND STREAMS &amp; LAKES &#8211; belongs to state.\u00a0 The presumption of percolating groundwater has not been overcome.\u00a0 Below level water belongs to owners, BUT groundwater district has right to space &amp; limit wells.\u00a0\u00a0 Finally water is a valuable commodity in Texas and ownership is prominent in real estate transactions and on a land sale water CAN BE CONVEYED OR RESERVED.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(4) PERCOLATING GROUNDWATER &#8211; finish &#8211; rule of capture for water as for oil &amp; gas.\u00a0 Permits drainage from underneath a neighbor&#8217;s property (&amp; vice versa) as long as it occurs from a legal location.\u00a0 Water depends on a groundwater district &amp; this district dictates distances from property lines.\u00a0 If no district then that not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}