The two states agreed to a land swap to ensure that a Dallas-area water district’s pump station lies wholly within Texas. Neither state gained in size from the small change.

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.

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.

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 Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said that the redrawn boundary will "ensure that millions of north Texans' water comes from a secure source in Texas". The new boundary is part of an equal swap of 1.34 acres of land between the two states.

A pump station in Lake Texoma was found to be straddling the Texas-Oklahoma border. Because of federal law, the boundary had to be redrawn.