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Sioux County landowners sue state on water sharing issues
Published Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Scottsbluff attorney Steven Smith...who represents the landowners...say his clients feel deep wells drilled into the Niobrara valley by Wyoming landowners have sharply reduced flows in the river.
It's the same argument being made about the Panhandle's Pumpkin Creek on the North Platte River and in the Republican River basin of southwest Nebraska....and Smith says they're worried the Niobrara may wind up in the same shape.
Rancher Jim Skavdahl of Harrison says the state has grown increasingly aggressive in the past 10 to 15 years in protecting the Niobrara by taking away some water rights and banning new irrigation wells, but has ignored well drilling in Wyoming and it's impact on the Niobrara compact.
The landowners bringing the suit represent 11 ranches and farming operations from the state line to the Niobrara's entrance into Agate Fossil Beds National Monument at Highway 29.
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