I just saw this thread and didn't notice the date. The rates mentioned above for water are very dated. Water is practically gold now and its taking ~ 1M barrels to frac a horizontal here. I can't imagine how desperate they must have been to solicit people for their pond water. Oil companies usually drill their own water wells, pump their own water, dig and line their own water holding ponds and bury the production mud.
If anyone else gets in a situation like this please consult a good O&G attorney. We pay ours a pretty penny but he has paid for himself many, many, many times over. Not enough "many's".....he has been priceless.
Land men and oil companies know you as an individual know nothing about damage payments for things like water, flow line, buried pipeline, overhead electric lines, roads/cliche, pad sites, up-charges for multiple wells on a pad, tank batteries, frac water pits, SWD injection wells, etc, etc. And that is just surface damages. If you own minerals......
Here is a link with some suggested damage rates. FWIW, we get close to double this amount for our water.
http://www.utlands.utsystem.edu/forms/pdfs/Rate_Damage_Schedule.pdf
