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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Kayla Guo

How zebra mussels and a Lake Texoma pump station spurred Texas to redraw its border with Oklahoma

A raw water pump station at Lake Texoma on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The station is bisected by the state line between Texas and Oklahoma, complicating the transportation of water to its intended destination in Texas.
A raw water pump station at Lake Texoma on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The station was bisected by the state line between Texas and Oklahoma. (Credit: Laura Buckman for The Texas Tribune)

Texas just altered its border with Oklahoma. Well, a small sliver of it, anyway. And, no, Texas didn’t become any bigger.

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