Thursday, September 11, 2008
Out of Control NRDs
It is interesting to note that the Natural Resources Districts of Nebraska have a highly paid, and quite questionably professional, staff. And yet they are ambivalent but probably and most likely unaware and ignorant of this blog which has heavily and repeatedly criticized the Lower Elkhorn NRD for its support of the Leigh Dam Project. I have repeatedly pointed out that the Leigh dam project is a fiasco, supported by only a handful of bullying so-called upstanding citizens of Leigh. Please, please, please stop wasting my tax dollars! It is time for the board to stop funding this project and do what is right to the good farmers of this community who have lost their land to the Leigh Dam Project.
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couldn't agree more, thanks.
outrageous
So the land on which the dam will be built, in families for generations, sits idle for 2 years. How as taxpayers can we allow this to happen, where is our representation on the NRD board? Why are the board members, supposedly conservative farmers who don't waste a dime, allowing this to go on, why can't they step to the plate and exercise their authority and say, this has to end?
Our representative from Wisner, is mute, why? Oh why?
Thank you for telling it like it is whomever you are, these farmer board members are so adamant about private property rights but are so willing and, unfortunately, able to use the power of eminent domain to literally steal property from other farmers? How can they sleep at night, don't they have any dignity and respect for their forefathers????????
Congratulations to Mr. JH, the NRD board member for FINALLY asking some tough questions and standing up to the NRD staff about this now heavily documented, waste of our tax money, boondoggle of a project.
NRD to answer corps' queries on Leigh Dam
By GREG WEES
News Staff Writer
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be getting answers on two alternatives to the $6.9 million Leigh Dam project.
Stan Staab, manager of the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District at Norfolk, said the NRD's attorney and consulting engineer are providing technical data to respond to recent requests for more information from the corps.
During a public hearing Thursday on the NRD's 2008-2009 proposed budget, Staab responded to a question from Kent Franzen of Wayne, a project opponent, who asked how much the NRD will spend before it has the permits needed to build the Leigh Dam.
Staab said he couldn't give a definite answer, but there would be added engineering costs to evaluate the two sites, which are from the NRD's Maple Creek Watershed plan of the 1980s.
Joel Hansen, another NRD director from Wayne, said Platte County reportedly wouldn't issue a floodplain permit until concerns were answered.
8/29/08 Norfolk Daily News
You are so dead on, it is a ridiculous waste of our hard earned tax dollars. I blame the state and the local NRD board for not stepping to the plate and stopping this now.
Okay, so we have all of this land sitting idle, when is it going to be turned back to the rightful owners? What are we waiting for? It is time for the NRD board to do what is right, NOW!
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