(KEARNEY HUB) The Kearney Hub reports "When settlers first arrived in the North Platte River Basin in the late 1800s, the river was very different from what it is today.
In spring, it ran heavy with snowmelt and rain. By the heat of summer, the river levels often receded to the point of being useless for irrigating farmers' withering crops.
In 1902, the federal Reclamation Act set in motion a decades-long engineering effort to harness water resources in the West, which made possible settlement, agriculture and development in the North Platte River Basin. Torrington, Morrill, Mitchell, Scottsbluff, Gering - none of these communities would be what they are today without the dams and reservoirs along the North Platte River in Wyoming."
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In spring, it ran heavy with snowmelt and rain. By the heat of summer, the river levels often receded to the point of being useless for irrigating farmers' withering crops.
In 1902, the federal Reclamation Act set in motion a decades-long engineering effort to harness water resources in the West, which made possible settlement, agriculture and development in the North Platte River Basin. Torrington, Morrill, Mitchell, Scottsbluff, Gering - none of these communities would be what they are today without the dams and reservoirs along the North Platte River in Wyoming."
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