Cooperative Agreement Hearing
The environmentalists and the surface irrigators support the Cooperative Agreement. As a general rule, those who use groundwater irrigation oppose the Cooperative Agreement. Of the NRDs, only the North Platte NRD supports the Cooperative Agreement but that is because they represent a large number or surface irrigators.
The Cooperative Agreement permits the Panhandle surface irrigators to continue to divert water from the Platte but requires the Central Platte area to put water back into the stream to make up for some of the upstream diversions.
This is a link to the WaterClaim testimony.