No Stream Augmentation Needed in 2024
No Stream Augmentation Needed in 2024
The URNRD's Rock Creek and NCORPE augmentation projects will not need to be operated in 2024. It marks the sixth year in a row neither project has beeen operated. An agreement reached in 2016 by the three Republican River Compact states of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado is the primary reason - it ties augmentation pumping to the volume of irrigation water in Harlan County Lake instead of estimates of Nebraska's upcoming Compact shortfall.