Nebraska’s NRDs 1972-2002

2. Nebraska’s NRDs 1972-2002

3. Flood Control Watershed Management Road Structures Private Dams Flood Control Levees Bank Stabilization

5. Urban Conservation Channel & Bank Stabilization Community Tree Program Park & Recreation Projects Sediment & Erosion Practices

7. Trees & Wildlife • Tree Planting • Forestry Management • Wildlife Habitat • Wetland Restoration

9. Soil Conservation Conservation Tillage Residue Management Rangeland & Pasture Management Erosion & Sediment Control Land Treatment Cost-Share

11. Recreation Trails Recreational Areas

13. Education Outdoor Classrooms Water/Earth Festivals Envirothon Land/Range Judging Adult Education & Training

15. Water Quality • Water Sampling • Well Abandonment • Monitoring Wells • Soil Sampling • Wellhead Protection • Chemigation • Groundwater Management

17. Water Quantity • Rural Water Projects • Measuring Groundwater Levels • Irrigation Management • Ultra Sonic Meter • Recharge & Surface Water Projects • Meter Program

19. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act

20. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act • 46-656.02. The Legislature finds that ownership of water is • held by the state for the benefit of its citizens, that ground ….

21. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act • 46-656.02. The Legislature finds that ownership of water is • held by the state for the benefit of its citizens, that ground …. (b) The Legislature recognizes its duty to define broad policy goals concerning the utilization and management of ground water and to ensure local implementation of those goals.

22. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act • 46-656.02. The Legislature finds that ownership of water is • held by the state for the benefit of its citizens, that ground …. (b) The Legislature recognizes its duty to define broad policy goals concerning the utilization and management of ground water and to ensure local implementation of those goals. (c) The Legislature also finds that natural resources districts have the legal authority to regulate certain activities and, except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, as local entities are the preferred regulators of activities which may contribute to ground water depletion.

23. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act 46-656.03. Management area; legislative findings. The Legislature also finds that …. natural resources districts have the legal authority to regulate certain activities and, as local entities, are the preferred regulators of activities which may contribute to ground water contamination in both urban and rural areas.

24. Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act 46-656.05. Legislative findings. The Legislature further finds …. natural resources districts already have significant legal authority to regulate activities which contribute to declines in ground water levels and to nonpoint source contamination of ground water and are the preferred entities to regulate, through ground water management areas, ground water related activities which are contributing to or are, in the reasonably foreseeable future, likely to contribute to conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators or which may be necessary in order to resolve disputes over interstate compacts or decrees, or to carry out the provisions of other formal state contracts or agreements.

25. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure.A district in which a management area has been designated shall by order adopt one or more of the following controls for the management area:

26. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may determine the permissible total • withdrawal of ground water for each day, • month, or year and allocate such withdrawal • among the ground water users;

27. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may adopt a system or rotation for • use of ground water;

28. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may adopt well-spacing requirements • more restrictive than those found in sections • 46-609 and 46-651;

29. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may require the installation of devices • for measuring ground water withdrawals • from water wells;

30. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may adopt a system which requires • reduction of irrigated acres pursuant to • subsection (2) of section 46-656.26;

31. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may limit or prevent the expansion of • irrigated acres;

32. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may require the use of best management • practices;

33. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may require the analysis of water or deep • soils for fertilizer and chemical content;

34. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. (i) It may provide educational requirements, including mandatory educational requirements, designed to protect water quality or to stabilize or reduce the incidence of ground water depletion, conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators, disputes over interstate compacts or decrees, or difficulties fulfilling the provisions of other formal state contracts or agreements;

35. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may require water quality monitoring and • reporting of results to the district for all water • wells within all or part of the management area;

36. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may close all or a portion of the management • area to the issuance of additional permits or may • condition the issuance of additional permits on • compliance with other rules and regulations • adopted and promulgated by the district to achieve • the purpose or purposes for which the • management area was designated.

37. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • It may adopt and promulgate such other • reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary • to carry out the purpose for which a management • area was designated.

38. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. (m) The controls adopted by the district pursuant to this section may contain different provisions for different categories of ground water use or portions of the management area which differ from each other because of varying climatic, hydrologic, geologic, or soil conditions.

39. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • The district may establish different water • allocations for different irrigation distribution • systems.

40. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. • 1. The district may establish different provisions • for different hydrologic relationships between • ground water and surface water.

41. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. (o) 2. …The district may establish different provisions for water wells constructed before the designation of a management area for integrated management of hydrologically connected ground water and surface water and for water wells constructed on or after the designation date or any other date or dates established by the district.

42. 46-656.25. Management area; controls authorized; procedure. (p) The district shall make a replacement water well as defined in section 46-602, or as further defined in district rules and regulations, subject to the same provisions as the water well it replaces.

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