Water Utilities

Timeline: McCook's 17 year search for a water solution (04/25/11)
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "it's deja vu all over again." In April 2005 the city of McCook will celebrate the dubious honor of having spent 17 years trying to solve its water problems. It all began in April 1988, when chemical tests of the city's water supply detected a high level of nitrates. The city applied for a Community Development Block Grant to help pay for a way to clear up the nitrate problems...

Wind power (05/03/08)
A fleet of trucks spent Friday night parked at the north sale barn in McCook, its drivers easily convinced of the power of the blowing wind. Gusts above 40 m.p.h. made it difficult for the southbound truckloads of wind turbine blades to stay on the road, so the drivers decided to find motel rooms in McCook for the night, and resume their journey Saturday, when winds were expected to abate...

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...

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