FLOOD08146

• County: Statewide
• Community: Otoe CountyNebraska
• Stream Name: Missouri River Miles 551.7-555.8
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Hamburg Bend Habitat Restoration / Preservation Project Volume 1
• Date: 8/1/1994
• Prepared For: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Prepared By: Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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school, and one senior high school serve the project area. Peru State College located in Peru
also serves the project area. Nebraska City also has a private elementary school, junior high
school, and high school.

Medical facilities for Nebraska City and the project area include St. Mary's Hospital, a
49-bed hospital, and two medical clinics (Family Medical Clinic and the Family Physicians of
Nebraska City), The hospital provides 24-hour emergency services (Nebraska Department of
Economic Development 1993), Transportation services in the project area include Omaha
Eppley Airfield with 8 airlines and 6 cargo lines, Burlington Northern Railroad and Union
Pacific Railroad. Water, electrical, and gas services are provided through Nebraska City
Utilities,

The property tax structure as of December 1993 is based on various amounts per $100
dollars of assessed property values. Residents are subject to the following tax rates:

Otoe County
School
Other

$0.4806 per $100
$1.6945 per $100
$0.1842 oer $100

Total

$2.3593 per $100

k. Recreation: According to the Nebraska Department of Economic Development
(NDED) one public golf course, nine public parks, four public tennis courts and one public
swimming pool are within 10 miles of Nebraska City. Hunting and fishing are the major
recreational activities in the project area.

1. Aesthetics: The aesthetics of the Hamburg Bend area are typical for agricultural and
wetland areas along the Missouri River,

m. Land Use: The land use and the zoning in the project area is primarily agricultural
with industrial use designated for the Nebraska City Power Plant (Pers. comm., Otoe County
Zoning Department 1994).

4. SITE ORTECTIVES

The Hamburg Bend Project is part of the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation
Project, the objective of which is to restore large-river habitat and associated chutes and
backwaters in the floodplain adjacent to the main channel of the Missouri River. The
measurable goals and objectives for the project site are outlined in Table 3.

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