DENVER (CBS4) - The South Platte River is one of Colorado's major resources, and the main source of water for eastern Colorado. At the center of recent controversy is a 100-year-old compact which ...

Nebraska took another step Wednesday toward building a canal that would divert water out of neighboring Colorado under a 99-year-old compact ... use of the South Platte River that runs through ...

DENVER — The South Platte River system supplies water to the entire Front Range of Colorado and most of the northeast plains. The river's headwaters are high in the Mosquito Range, but other big ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced a $500 million plan to divert water out of Colorado under a 99-year-old compact between the states that allows Nebraska to seize access to ...

They’ve also been strong enough since the 1923 South Platte River Compact’s new water year started April 1 to supply the projected canal every day but two, according to U.S. Geological Survey ...

The 99-year-old South Platte River compact between the two states does outline plans for such a project, according to Anthony Schutz, an associate law professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

exceeded the irrigation-season mandate under the two-state 1923 South Platte River Compact 86.4% of the time during the April 1-Oct. 15 irrigation season. They also were high enough to deliver ...

The two states signed the South Platte River Compact in April 1923, granting each of them various rights in connection with the river. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Ricketts said that ...

But a new dispute is brewing over a lesser known Western river, the South Platte. Almost 100 years ago, Nebraska and Colorado signed a compact that divided South Platte water during growing season.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the number of gallons of water that would be pulled from the South Platte River under the project proposal. DENVER — A multibillion-dollar ...

Residents on this state line have built their industry, economy and lives around the South Platte River. But as an intense and widespread drought digs into the High Plains, flows Nebraska and ...

DENVER — A multibillion-dollar reservoir and pipeline project may one day pull more than 50,000 acre-feet of water per year from the South Platte River before it reaches Nebraska. That’s more than 16 ...