Chadd v. Lower Platte South Natural Resources District

INTRODUCTION

Donald Chadd filed a written objection, under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 46-691 (Cum. Supp. 2000), with the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (NRD) regarding the withdrawal and transfer of ground water from his property. The water was being transferred away from the overlying land to a neighbor’s property and was being utilized for domestic purposes. Pursuant to the procedures in § 46-691, the NRD requested that the Nebraska Department of Water Resources (Department), now the Department of Natural Resources, hold a hearing to determine whether the transfer of water had a…