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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
The National Rural Water Association was founded in 1976 in response to the Safe Drinking Water Act, passed in 1974.The SDWA authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency to set national health-based standards for drinking water to protect against both naturally occurring and man-made contaminants that may be found in drinking water.
Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas, 458 U.S. 941 (1982), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that a Nebraska statute forbidding commercial exportation of water from Nebraska was unconstitutional in that it violated the dormant commerce clause.
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately 68 miles (109 km) long, in central Nebraska in the United States.The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast of the Sandhills.
According to the Nebraska Birding Trails website, birds found at Harlan County Reservoir have included common loon, black-legged kittiwake, parasitic jaeger, little blue heron, white-faced ibis, and Sabine's gull. Bald eagles are also often spotted in the latter fall and winter months, especially at the Western end of the lake near Alma.
Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880–1940 (1992) ... Water in Nebraska: Use, Politics, Policies (University of Nebraska Press, 1984) ...
The focus of woody biomass utilization in the state is reducing Nebraska's energy dependence on fossil fuels, creating jobs and new sources of income in depressed rural areas, reducing forest fuel loads and risk of catastrophic wildfires, creating markets for eastern redcedar cleared from grazing lands, addressing scarce water issues in drought ...
The river flows for approximately 359 miles (578 km) [2] from central Nebraska into Kansas, until its confluence with the Kansas River at Manhattan. It was given its name by the Kansa tribe of Native Americans, who lived at its mouth from 1780 to 1830, and who called it the Great Blue Earth River .