When it comes to Nebraska Supreme Court rulings on water issues lately, the high court has come down on the side of Republican Basin natural resources districts (NRDs), the state and NCORPE.
The URNRD will install three data weather stations throughout the district like this one located on a farm northwest of Imperial. Each of the 15 groundwater monitoring wells in the district, such as the one shown here, will be equipped with rain buckets to provide real-time rain data. (Johnson Publications photo)
Irrigators in the three counties of the Upper Republican Natural Resources
Refinancing of the original bonds sold to finance the land purchase and development for the Lincoln County augmentation project will save more than $13 million over the next 21 years.
Jesse Bradley, assistant director of the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, outlined Nebraska’s obligations under a new agreement reached with Kansas on water use in the Republican River Basin during last week’s water conference. (Johnson Publications photo)
Last summer Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado signed a cooperative agreement to manage water in the Republican River Basin together.
With Tax Equalization and Review Committee (TERC) hearings coming in June, Chase County Commissioners Dave Hogsett, Chuck Vette and Don Weiss, Jr.
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