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oUek (k��1 3��,�v� ��rc�ld - �VbV�r� ^�b X007 <br />LTNC . Neb. (AP} —The Already, the district has hilted '– � --� - - - - - -- <br />land . rental rates 'for: cabin • long term. <br />owners at Big Mae �arid >Jolnn- Itrict withdfTel laa - <br />w; son in, some eaves so;* 0" <br />dN <br />> qw- <br />hit a of :low water dmplh* the cost. pay Pouter <br />'flows into the massive reser- Last month, -for example, the during <br />voir. Now . it's sctgtnbling for district approved ,increasing hers, iess whenirwas <br />more money. cabin -lot rates early next um W IM in the <br />A: rouglii 10 denx dip'< In. from $450 to $7;800 at so- the state <br />reven r Mac, and early this, week ,Can `send water that <br />creased rates at Johnson. Lake state is owed under a .three- <br />the last .flue +ears has Hold: to more than double for soma narrlpaCt; building lakes <br />rage -based �a lots over the next: few years io hold that could be <br />�i ' This .month, district officials hhWkwAhm-< t"aeet <br />netiv=fees on will talk' with their irrigation,. <br />grouter irrigators and customers about raising rates,'" ` tli�i cis 1W acgrriring <br />boatels on Big Mac, among to as much.as $27 an acre from <br />other ideas: $25. croasir g ° '% i , s. at key <br />One board member has even That could-be tough to swal- times., <br />suggested' the district, get. into low for irrigators who "have re- "We definitely need to find <br />the wind -power business. ceived less than half'the water some other sources of in- <br />P e lofts ve shown they'r2 contractually.entitled to. come," said district board <br />the% s Trot ` ' frr tht the last couple years.. They'll be member Doyle Lavene of <br />aretti in the. same situation next year. Bertrand. "Hydropower is next <br />ea,, aqd They have told =district offi- to nothing compared to what it <br />n the' dis- cials that if rates are going to has been." <br />' ead issue," be increased, they want the The combination of drought <br />fdl sWd district spokes - district to look into charging in western Nebraska and be- <br />man .alms Anderson., But-the feet to groundwater users. low- normal Rocky Mountain <br />talk is a sign that the The fees would be based on snowpack has caused inflows <br />that `: lG, 'y" "'the assumption that ground - into Big Mac to dwindle to less <br />ue socucu water supplies near the dis than half of the 30 -year aver- <br />trict's series of canals that age. <br />Tire situation isn't deliver irrigation water are re- Three Wyoming reservoirs <br />dire, thanks to reserves - built plenished by the flowing canal that first capture spring runoff <br />up in the ;water - soaked .199os, water. ' and that feed the Platte with <br />but it cottld -get that way with- Such a fee could set up an- water that ends up in Nebraska <br />out more water and more rev- other water showdown in the are 'less than a quarter fall. <br />entne. tat betwee surf_ e —A Th uld b filled fir von tst h <br />s e n c use wo a <br />"If this' drought hangs .on; groundwater users; and Kraus spring runoff <br />