Threatened lawsuit against DNR and NRDs
Claude Cappel is frustrated with water policy. He lives in the McCook area and has given me permission to post a letter he received from a law firm that he has consulted regarding a suit agains the DNR and NRDs. Claude is on the Nebraska Water Policy Task Force, a long time surface irrigator, and very active in water politics. The law firm that Claude has consulted with is the same firm that is representing the Pioneer and Laird irrigation ditches in Colorado. They have filed a lawsuit asking that all groundwater irrigation in the Colorado portion of the Republican River Basin be shut off until their stream flows again like it used to. Claude's arguement is based on the same principle.
His permission is contingent on me quoting him in context so I am posting an email exchange he and I have had. Jerda Garey is the former mayor of McCook and has been involved in the discussion.