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The Rainwater Basin wetland region is a 4,200 sq mi (11,000 km 2) loess plain located south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska. [1] It lies principally in Adams, Butler, Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Kearney, Phelps, Polk, Saline, Seward, and York counties and extends into adjacent areas of southeastern Hall, northern Franklin, northern Nuckolls, western Saline, northern Thayer and ...
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 .
High water on the Moreau River prompted evacuations on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. [69] Pennington County approved a local disaster declaration as a result of a bridge collapse and other damage. [67] In September 2019, "heavy rains dumped more than four times what is normal in parts of Montana, North and South Dakota and Nebraska ...
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Pumpkin Creek is an important source of irrigation water in Banner County, Nebraska. [3] In recent years, drought and agricultural irrigation have severely depleted the water of Pumpkin Creek. [ 3 ] The 450,700-acre Pumpkin Creek watershed receives about 16 inches of precipitation annually.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, left, and Gov. Laura Kelly signed a joint letter opposing a water transfer in Nebraska they say could lead to invasive species of carp in Kansas waterways.
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Cedar County is on the northern edge of Nebraska. Its north boundary abuts the south boundary line of the state of South Dakota , across the Missouri River . According to the US Census Bureau , the county has an area of 746 square miles (1,930 km 2 ), of which 740 square miles (1,900 km 2 ) is land and 5.5 square miles (14 km 2 ) (0.7%) is water.