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Water Supply Protection
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related to Platte River Endangered Species Partnership (aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)
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NE
WY
Basin
North Platte
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U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Title
North Platte River Projects Wyoming - Nebraska
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Project Overview
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Irrigation <br />' <br />North Platte Project <br />Over 1.1 million acre -feet of storage <br />capacity are provided by project reservoirs <br />(an acre -foot of water is the amount of <br />water required to cover one acre one foot <br />deep). Ninety percent of this capacity is in <br />Pathfinder Reservoir. This water is used to <br />irrigate lands in eastern Wyoming and the <br />Nebraska Panhandle. <br />The most important crops include sugar <br />beets, dry and edible beans, corn, and <br />alfalfa hay. Since 1908, North Platte <br />Project lands have produced crops valued <br />at over $2 billion. <br />A full water supply is provided to four <br />irrigation districts whose distribution <br />systems were built by the government. <br />These lands are divided into the Interstate, <br />Northport, and Ft. Laramie Divisions. <br />The Interstate Division is located on the <br />north side of the river, mostly in Nebraska. <br />It contains one large district, the Pathfinder, <br />with 101,000 irrigable acres and an <br />additional 1,700 acres of non - district lands <br />in Wyoming. <br />The Northport Division contains the <br />smallest district, the Northport, with 16,000 <br />irrigable acres. Water diverted near the <br />Wyoming- Nebraska state line is carried 80 <br />miles through the privately owned Tri -State <br />Canal to the headgate of the Northport <br />Canal and lateral system. <br />The Ft. Laramie Division includes both the <br />Goshen and Gering -Ft. Laramie Irrigation <br />Districts. The Goshen contains 52,000 <br />irrigable acres in Wyoming and the <br />Gering -Ft. Laramie contains 55,000 <br />irrigable acres in Nebraska. These districts <br />are located on the south side of the river. <br />A supplemental water supply is provided <br />to nine water user associations having a <br />combined irrigable area of 109,000 acres. <br />These districts are known as Warren Act <br />contractors and have privately built <br />distribution systems. <br />Kendrick Project <br />Seminoe and Alcova Reservoirs provide <br />storage for the Kendrick Project. Project <br />water is used to irrigate 24,000 acres in the <br />Casper, Wyoming area. <br />5 <br />
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