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Salt Creek, as with all other saline wetlands in southeast Nebraska, is imparted with its salinity due to the porous nature of the Dakota sandstone through which it flows. [4] The salt in the region is ultimately sourced from Cretaceous-era shale which was deposited when Nebraska was part of a vast inland ocean known as the Western Interior ...
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]
In western Nebraska, the banks and riverbed of the North Platte provide a green oasis amid an otherwise semi-arid region of North America. Today, by the time the North Platte reaches Paxton, Nebraska it is much smaller due to the extensive water taken from it for irrigation. Historically, the North Platte River was up to a mile wide (1.6 km) in ...
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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The White River is a Missouri River tributary that flows 580 miles (930 km) [3] through the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota.The name stems from the water's white-gray color, a function of eroded sand, clay, and volcanic ash carried by the river [5] from its source near the Badlands. [6]
Wildfires also may be affecting water quality in some of the region’s most pristine lakes, according to a study published in August by researchers at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
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 ...