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1 <br />wer �pin er hit <br />c d- takes, <br />IAe <br />we'll have to make changes in . <br />said it would require a change <br />how we do business• three to <br />in state law that probably <br />lev& (Ue . <br />five, years;" said district general <br />won't be sought during the <br />manager Don Kraus. <br />legislative session <br />The <br />Already, the district has hilted r _ ' <br />cabin tam, <br />l and rental rates for: <br />along <br />Mwa <br />. <br />owners at Big Mac'and Join- <br />tctwitbson <br />Iake in some>ca.Ses <br />Wk <br />hit "a el re 'low ter <br />durplmgthecost. <br />pay, <br />'flows into the massive reser- <br />Last month, -for; example, the <br />imbopower during <br />voir. Now : it's scrambling for <br />district approved .increasing <br />less when 3r was <br />more moneg <br />:cabin -lot rates: early. next 7m <br />to Put re he <br />A rouglily.370 errsent dip in <br />from $450 to $Y600 at 8 <br />so ire' state <br />revenues ,< <br />Mac, and early this' weeks <br />can ' send =wvater. that <br />creased rates at Johnson. Lake <br />aAnft is owed render a three - <br />the• last .five . ;,has Hold- <br />to more than double for some cot CG building lakes <br />rage - based , <br />lots over the next few years: <br />to hold water that could be <br />r <br />This ,month, district officials 1 1.smda met <br />1 a at: new fees on <br />will U& with their irrigatio* <br />grot>nd rater irrlgators and <br />customers about raising rates. <br />, the cabs for acgruring <br />boaters on Big Mac, among <br />to as much as $27 an acre from <br />other ideas: <br />.$25. <br />`wows. at-key <br />One board member has even <br />Thatcould•be tough to swat- <br />times.. <br />suggested the district get. into <br />km 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 />l�evlious; "` ;sbotdi <br />they're contractually-entitled to. <br />come," said district board <br />ittIm <br />the last couple years. They ll be <br />member Doyle Lavene of <br />ar ►ta <br />in the same situation next year. <br />Bertrand. "Hydropower is next <br />aid <br />They have told •district offi- <br />to nothing compared to what it <br />the dis- <br />cials that if rates are going to <br />has been." <br />end issue," <br />be increased, they want the <br />The combination of drought <br />ow; said district : spokes - <br />district to look into charging <br />in western Nebraska and be- <br />man .Tim Ariderson., But .,the <br />fees to groundwater users. . <br />low - normal Rocky Mountain <br />talk is a that the <br />The fees would be based on <br />snowpack has , caused inflows <br />that `" '" the assumption that ground - <br />into Big Mac to dwindle to less <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, dumb to reserves - built <br />. plenished by the flowing canal <br />that first capture spring runoff <br />up in the '.water- soaked.1990s, <br />water. <br />acid that feed the Platte with <br />but it ;cotrlc: get that way with- <br />Such a fee could set up an- L <br />water that ends up in Nebraska <br />out more water and more m- <br />other water showdown in the <br />are 'less than a quarter full. <br />enua <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 />