Nebraska Supreme Court: River Compact Supersedes Water Appropriators’ Interests

(March 14, 2017, 9:07 AM EDT) -- LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Supreme Court on March 10 unanimously ruled that the Republican River Compact supersedes the property interests of water appropriators and that the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) does not have a duty to regulate groundwater and cannot make a claim of inverse condemnation (Gregg Hill of Furnas County, et al. v. State of Nebraska, et al., Nos. S-16-558 and S-16-560, Neb. Sup., 2017 Neb. LEXIS 37)....

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