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Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) is the largest electric utility in the state of Nebraska, serving all or parts of 84 (of 93) counties. [1] It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District (PVPPID) and Nebraska Public Power System merged to become Nebraska Public Power District.
Aerial view of Lake McConaughy from the south. The lake, formed by Kingsley Dam, is a man-made body of water that is 22 miles (35 km) long, 4 miles (6.4 km) wide at its largest point, and 142 feet (43 m) deep near the dam (at full capacity) – it was constructed between 1936 and 1941 and is fed by the North Platte River. [2]
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District are also located in this area. Kingsley Dam, the Kingsley Hydroelectricity Plant, the Morning Glory Spillway, and the Outlet Tower – a large structure near the dam used to release water from the lake – are main visual icons of Lake McConaughy.
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18.4 acres 7.4 ha: Typical infantry outpost of the 19th century Plains Fort Kearny State Historical Park: Buffalo: 39.21 acres 15.87 ha: Partial reconstruction of fort that protected travelers of the Overland Trail Rock Creek Station State Historical Park: Jefferson: 353 acres 143 ha: Partially reconstructed stagecoach and Pony Express station
CNS is owned and operated by the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), a political subdivision of the state of Nebraska.. The facility is named after Humboldt natives Guy Cooper Jr., and Guy Cooper Sr. [2] The senior Cooper's father, O. A. Cooper, built the first electrical plant in Humboldt in 1890; the two Guy Coopers served a total of 27 years on the board of NPPD and its predecessor ...
In 1854 Alfred D. Jones drew four parks on the original map of Omaha City. They were called Jefferson Square, which was paved over by I-480; Washington Park, which is where the Paxton Block currently sits at North 16th and Farnam Streets; Capitol Square, where Omaha Central High School is now located, and; an unnamed tract overlooking the river with Davenport Street on the north, Jackson ...
As of 2007, the average annual flow through the power plant was 874,000 acre-feet (1.078 × 10 9 m 3). [3] In 2007, in regards to severe declines in the flow of the Niobrara River as a result of upstream irrigation, NPPD requested that the state of Nebraska make farmers pay as compensation for lost power generation.