12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, June 10, 2006

By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ordered the state's environmental quality commission to reconsider its approval of Marshall's plan to sell some of its water supply from Caddo Lake to private industry.

While the high court stopped short of ordering the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to convene a hearing so that opponents can object to the plan, justices said the agency needs to determine whether the city's proposed water sale might affect other water-rights holders and interests on Caddo Lake and its tributaries in northeast Texas.