Upper Platte Basin Fully Appropriated 

On December 30, 2005, the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources notified the District of the Department’s preliminary determination that portions of the Upper Platte River Basin, part of which lies within the District, are fully appropriated and the geographic area in which the surface water and groundwater are hydrologically connected. Pursuant to Department rule, 457 NAC 24001.02, the hydrologically connected area is the area within which pumping of a water well for fifty (50) years will deplete the river or a baseflow tributary thereof by at least ten percent (10%) of the amount pumped in that time (the “10/50 Area”). On April 21, 2006, the Department issued the “Order of Final Determination of River Basins, Subbasins, or Reaches as fully Appropriated, and Describing Hydrologically Connected Geographic Areas”, confirming the preliminary determination of December 30, 2005.