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Ke Fi)Ffc-r _7007 <br />nfi ow, er - P inj�wer t&es, hit <br />Lake �� <br />well have to make changes in . <br />said it would require a change <br />levels( <br />how we do businewin tht+ee to <br />five years," said district general <br />in state law that probably <br />won't be sought doting the <br />manager Don Kraus. <br />coming legislative session. <br />LIIV; Oa T� }Veb. (AP) — The <br />Already, the district has hiked <br />' <br />land rental rates f »r c�Lbfn `t` <br />long ternx <br />owners at Big Mac and Jour- <br />tracr withxl�TebiIlatti- <br />;. <br />son Lake; in some eases qua- <br />so It iid <br />hit 2i er ggats of ' low water <br />druplitig the cost <br />pay . Pow <br />flows Ito t!re massive reser- <br />Last month, .for eaample, the <br />mores over during <br />voir. Now. it's scrambling for ' <br />district approved increasing <br />It years; less when st Ww <br />more moneyt <br />Cabin -lot rates early next y� <br />,.. Wi t. M he <br />A rougtily?70 ent, dip, in <br />from $450 to $x,800 at <br />so the state <br />revenues <br />and early this week Sri <br />can send =ceder that <br />creased rates at Johnson. Lake <br />10ateis owed under a .thro —e <br />the last .flue ors has Hold- <br />to more than double for some , coir4W ; building lakes <br />rege -based <br />lots over the next few years, <br />to hold voter that could be <br />This month, district officals " O -st 1 "keet <br />at neVv =fees on <br />_ <br />will . talk with their irrigad 1,4 <br />grounc wi* irrigators. and <br />customers about raising rates ``. <br />that calls for acgttiring <br />boaters on Big Mac, among <br />to as much as $27 an acre from <br />one h I KAM&*I- <br />oth&'Idem , <br />125. <br />A flows at 4ey <br />One board member has even <br />That could-be tough to swat- <br />times., <br />suggested the district get. into <br />low for irrigators who have re- <br />"We definitely need to find <br />the wind-power business. <br />ceived less than half the water <br />some other sources of in- <br />ft�evioua ve shou4i <br />they're contrachl y.entided to. <br />come," said district board <br />theirs =no 3rr the <br />the last couple years. They�ll be <br />member Doyle Lavene of <br />arequ <br />in the. same situation; next year. <br />Bertrand. "Hydropower is next <br />ar4d <br />They have told district offl- <br />to nothing compared to what it <br />n the' dis- <br />cials that if rates are going to <br />has been." <br />" r x lead issue," <br />be increased, they want the <br />The combination of drought <br />fiili3 ow, sitld drstrict spokes- <br />district to' I look into charging <br />in western Nebraska and be- <br />man: ifm l►riderson. But .:the <br />fees to groundwater users. <br />low- normal Rocky Mountain <br />talk is a si' that the* , <br />The fees would be based on <br />snowpack has , caused inflows <br />the assumption that ground - <br />into Big Mac to dwindle to less <br />LAASL LM sotue <br />water supplies near the dis-. <br />than half of the 30 -year aver- <br />trict's series of canals that <br />age. <br />The'- situation isn't <br />deliver irrigation water are re- <br />'Three Wyoming reservoirs <br />dire, thanks to reserves . built <br />plenished by the flowing canal <br />that first capture spring runoff <br />up in the ;.water- s6aked.1990s, <br />water. <br />and that feed the Platte with <br />but it could. get that way with= <br />Such a fee could set up an- <br />water that ends up in Nebraska <br />out more water and more rev- <br />other water showdown in the <br />are _less than a quarter full <br />enue. <br />state between surface and <br />Those would be filled first with <br />"if this ' drought hangs :.on, - <br />groundwater • users, and Kraus <br />spring runoff.' <br />