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NRD College Scholarship Applications Due April 1
Curtis – Students who will be entering their first or second year of college are invited to apply for the Middle Republican Natural Resources District College scholarship. Two scholarships are available, each in the amount of $500. Click HERE for entire news release.
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SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE
The Middle Republican Natural Resources District will hold a Special Meeting at
4:00 PM on January 26, 2010 at the at the Embassy Suites
1040 P Street
Lincoln, Nebraska.
The purpose of this Special Meeting is to discuss Integrated Management Plans with personnel from the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources. No action is planned during this meeting. The Board reserves the right to enter into executive session if needed.
 Letter to the Dept of Natural Resources...
"...the District we would ask that the timeline for consideration of these changes be extended by at least one month." Click on letter image above to read entire letter.
Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
December 2009
The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (NDNR) predicts that Nebraska’s allowable depletions to Republican River streamflow during 2010 (if it is a dry year) will be approximately 310,300 acre-feet. The NDNR is predicting that Nebraska will be in compliance with the Republican River Compact under all likely weather conditions (using current accounting procedures). The Bureau of Reclamation is predicting that Water Short Year Administration will not be in effect during 2010; therefore the two-year compliance standard above Guide Rock will not be in effect. Click Here for Entire Notice and Tables
12/22/09
February 1st is the deadline for the Agriculture Water Enhancement Program or AWEP sign up. AWEP is a NRCS voluntary Environmental Quality Incentive Program available to irrigators in the Middle Republican NRD.
Under AWEP, the NRCS, together with contributions from the Middle Republican NRD, will pay up to $1,000.00 per acre for the permanent retirement of irrigated acres that have been irrigated 2 out of the past 5 years. There is a maximum enrollment of 160 acres allowed per applicant. The payment will be spread out over five years. While these acres may not be irrigated again once they are retired, they may be used for pasture, hay or dry land farming or any other agricultural purposes allowed by zoning.
Interested individuals should contact their local NRCS office for more information and for sign up.
Dry Year Options Considered by Board of Directors
12/17/09
The Middle Republican Natural Resources District (NRD) will continue to work with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to gather information needed to develop an allocation scheme based on a rolling year average, to replace option #3 which the Board has reluctantly selected for consideration. State or local funding is required for the adoption of any option. The MRNRD agrees to develop a solution to compact compliance during dry years by jointly developing a rolling average allocation that will include overall allocation reductions and establish an allocation system that can react to dry years. Surface water leases and/or augmentation plans must be a component of this alternative. Until this new option can be developed jointly between the NRD and DNR, we will work with the DNR to develop that language necessary to go to hearing with option #3. As stated above, state or local funding ability must be included with the consideration of any option.
While this option has been selected by the board, no rules have been developed to implement this option. Under no circumstances will this option be used in 2010. The rule making process is a coordinated effort between the state and the NRD and this will take place over the upcoming months. Even IF rules are developed on this option, a public hearing must be held before any rules can be approved.
December Board Meeting Postponed to Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The Board of Directors meeting, originally scheduled for Tuesday, December 8th at 1:45 PM at the Curtis Community Center, has been cancelled as a result of severe winter weather and has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 16th for the same location.
NOTICE
TO THE
REPUBLICAN RIVER BASIN
NATURAL RESOURCES DISTRICTS
OF THE POTENTIAL FOR
WATER SHORT YEAR ADMINISTRATION IN 2010
Click Here for Entire Announcement
The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources recently presented two power points at the Nov 30th Republican River Management Districts Association meeting held at the Curtis Memorial Community Center. The presentation below discusses how the DNR is now forecasting a water short year.
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