jd7520 - 10/18/2025 11:32

You must have some neighbors that can't think for themself. This is the 2nd time you have come on here with a "neighbor came to me with" question. It is either that or what are you really doing here? To answer your question, I don't think the neighbor can do anything as the water in the creek belongs to the people of Missouri.

https://styronblog.com/law/missouri-water-law-primer-streams/

https://www.stateregstoday.com/living/water-rights/state-water-right...



Thanks for the links.

As to the rest of your comments - you sure read a lot into it. Not every landowner is on NewAgTalk. Not every farmer is on NewAgTalk.

There is a wealth of knowledge on this board. Several things pointed out in this thread that I really hadn't thought about or considered.

I guess I'm cursed in that I'm willing to help friends or a landowner out.

In this situation part of me would just as soon tell the farmer (that I have never met) from 40 or 50 miles away that built a pivot without having water to go pond sand. But is that really the right thing to do?

I did tell him on the phone that most people secure water rights before building a pivot!

Edited by cows-n-crops 10/19/2025 14:18