Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District v. City of Fremont

Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District (Big Blue), in its motion for rehearing, has asked us to reconsider our holding in In re Applications A-16027 et al., 242 Neb. 315, 495 N.W.2d 23 (1993). In that opinion, we reviewed a decision of the director of the Department of Water Resources, denying Big Blue’s applications for intrabasin and interbasin diversions of unappropriated waters from the Platte and Blue Rivers. Having fully discussed the salient facts in our first opinion on this case, we turn to Big Blue’s arguments, discussing only those facts relevant to our analysis.

Although in our…