Upper Republican News Today

The Platte to Republican Basin High Flow Diversion Project’s (PRD) amended application would involve a precedent setting surface water interbasin transfer via Turkey Creek.

In the coming weeks , there will likely no longer be an Imperial United Methodist Church.

1983 Excavations at the Lebeau Site, 14NT301 - Kansas Memory

The Ogallala Aquifer is healthy and thriving in many parts of Nebraska, but decades of irrigating in a relatively dry area have taken a toll on groundwater in southwest Nebraska.

Some small pockets of the aquifer in Nebraska have been losing water at far greater paces than the rest of the state.

Decades of irrigating in a relatively dry area has taken a toll on the groundwater in southwest Nebraska.

Board members of the Upper Republican NRD approved the district’s water rules for the next five years. The action came at Tuesday’s regular board meeting on an 11-0 vote.

Derek Russell is following the family tradition of Imperial business ownership with the opening of AgPro Realty.

As the drought continues its extended stay in southwestern and northeastern Nebraska, water managers are battening down the hatches ahead of what could be another dry winter in the state.