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April 23, 2008

Kansas Demands

On April 22, 2008, Kansas sent a letter to Nebraska detailing what it felt the damages should be for Nebraska's overuse. This was an estimate that Nebraska requested that Kansas make.

Cover Letter

Attachment 1 - Estimated Cost of Compliance

Attachment 2 - Analysis of Measures Required for Compliance

Attachment 3 - Analysis of Shutdown Effects

The $72 million that Kansas is requesting covers the damages caused by Nebraska being out of compliance in 2005 and 2006. It does not include the costs Kansas will estimate at a later date for the 2007 overage or the 2003-2007 overages.

April 13, 2008

Letter to the Governor

Now that Ann Bleed has resigned, we have renewed our effort to get some of the problems in the computer simulation regulating the Republican River corrected. As Bleed was a part of the negotiating team and technical staff that created the Model and adopted it, she had little incentive to correct the problems. Doing so could have been seen as an acknowledgment that some errors had been made in creation of the simulation.

Now that Bleed is gone there in a new opportunity to get a fresh set of eyes to look at the problems in the simulation and perhaps correct the most egregious.

http://www.waterclaim.org/dnr/lettertogovernor.htm