Drinking Water Quality

Republican River tour takes on new sense of urgency (05/02/08)
LINCOLN -- An early June water and natural resources tour will visit the lower Republican River basin in Kansas and Nebraska to help answer water use questions in the basin. The annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce water and natural resources tour is June 3-5, beginning and ending on UNL's East Campus...

Injection well finally gets approval from state (04/23/08)
The drinking water treatment plant in McCook has been on-line for nearly two years, but the process to dispose of the waste from the plant wasn't resolved until April 8. That's when the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality approved the permit for McCook to operate a Class I non-hazardous waste injection well at the sewer treatment plant...