The Telegraph opens a two-part series on Nebraska's U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit against Colorado by analyzing 99 years of state-line South Platte River flows under the South Platte River Compact.
“When the (South) Platte flows past my farm I want it to be as big as the Mississippi, and when it leaves Colorado to enter Nebraska, I want it to be bone-dry.”
As it passes the Western Irrigation Canal’s headgates just north of the Colorado state line, this channel of the South Platte River assumes the braided, shallow character that typifies the entire stream east to the Platte River forks just past North Platte. It narrows further on spring and summer days when Colorado doesn’t supply its promised flows under the South Platte River Compact, a key complaint in a July 16 suit by Nebraska against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court
As it passes the Western Irrigation Canal’s headgates just north of the Colorado state line, this channel of the South Platte River assumes the braided, shallow character that typifies the entire stream east to the Platte River forks just past North Platte. It narrows further on spring and summer days when Colorado doesn’t supply its promised flows under the South Platte River Compact, a key complaint in a July 16 suit by Nebraska against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court
