DNR Publications/Presentations
Integrated Water Management Presentations and Publications
DNR Statutes
DNR Rules
LB 517 - Final Task Force Report
PLANNING
Annual Report and Plan of Work
- Carbon Sequestration, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Nebraska Agriculture - Background and Potential - December 2001
- An Analysis of Natural Resources District: Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Duplication of Responsibility and Other Options for Facilitating Property Tax Relief - September 1998
- Estimated Water Use in Nebraska 1995 - April 1998
- An Analysis of Natural Resources District Revenue Base, Board Sizes, and Potential for Boundary Changes or Consolidation - September 1997
- Estimated Water Use in Nebraska 1990 - December 1994
- Report on the South-Central Area Ground Water Planning Study - August 1990
- Nebraska Environmental Education and Information Resources Directory - 1990
- Report on the Composition of Natural Resources Districts - August 1989
- Summary and Proceedings C-Factor Workshop - The Impact of Farming Methods on Soil Erosion - 1988
Floodplain Study - Elkhorn River
Water and Water Right Transfer Study
Erosion and Sediment Control
- Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Strategy - 1990 Update
- Summary of the Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Strategy - 1986
- Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Strategy - Base Document - 1986
Policy Issue Studies
- Policy Issue Study Summary and Review - October 1986
- Integrated Management of Surface Water And Groundwater - April 1986
- Water Use Efficiency - April 1985
- Platte River Forum for the Future - January 1985
- Progress Report on the Sandhills Area Study - 1984
- Supplemental Water Supplies - January 1984
- Water and Energy - January 1984
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Transferability of Surface Water Rights - May 1983
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Interstate Water Uses and Conflicts - April 1983
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Riparian Rights - March 1983
- Municipal Water Needs - March 1983
- Appendix to Municipal Water Needs - March 1983
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Property Rights in Groundwater - January 1983
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Water Rights Adjudication - December 1982
- Instream Flows Summary - September 1982
- Groundwater Reservoir Management Summary - September 1982
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Drainage of Diffused Summary - September 1982
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Preferences Summary - September 1982
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Drainage of Diffused Surface Water - May 1982
- Groundwater Reservoir Management - March 1982
- Appendix to the Policy Issue Study on Groundwater Reservoir Management - March 1982
- Instream Flows - January 1982
- Selected Water Rights Issues – Preferences in the Use of Water - October 1981
- Public Advisory Board - State Water Planning and Review Process - May 1980
- Water Quality - March 1980
State Water Plan
- Supplement to Republican River Basin Plan Appendix D – Project Investigations – Wauneta Flood Control Project - April 1980
- Section 208 - Water Quality Management Plan - 1979
- Fourth Revision - March 1979
- Republican River Basin Plan Appendix D - August 1978
- Third Revision - February 1977
- Second Revision - February 1975
- Volume 1 Potential Projects - April 1973
- Funding Nebraska’s Future Natural Resources Development - December 1, 1972
- Annual Watershed Planning Report - 1970
- Annual Watershed Planning Report - 1969
- Annual Watershed Planning Report - 1968
Framework Study
- Report on the Framework Study - May 1971
- Appendix A – Land Inventory - June 1974
- Appendix B – Inventory of Water Resources - June 1971
- Appendix C – Land and Water Resource Problems And Needs - September 1971
- Appendix D – Survey of Nebraska Water Law - June 1971
- Appendix E – Survey of Nebraska Water Law - June 1970
- Summary of Framework Study - October 1971
- Summary of Abstracts, Outlines and Time Schedules for the Nebraska Water Plan Current as of October, 1969
1969 State Water Plan
- Flood Warning and Community Action - August 1969
- Modernization of Resource District Legislation - March 1969
1968 State Water Plan
- Progress Report - Jan 1, 1967 to Jan 1, 1969
- Big Blue River Basin - September 1968
- Big Blue River Basin Appendix - September 1968
- Flood Prevention and Damage Reduction - July 1968
- Summary of Outlines and Time Schedules for Nebraska’s State Water Plan as of July 1, 1968
- Transbasin Diversion - March 1968
- Summary of Outlines and Time Schedules for Nebraska’s State Water Plan as of January 1, 1968
1967 State Water Plan
- A Design for Nebraska’s State Water Plan - June 6, 1967
- Flood Prevention and Damage Reduction - Jan 1967
1941 Water Resources of Nebraska
Report of the Nebraska Water Policy Task Force (December 2003)
Annual Evaluation of Availability of Hydrologically Connected Water Supplies
- 2014 Annual Report
- 2013 Annual Report
- 2012 Annual Report
- 2011 Annual Report
- 2010 Annual Report
- 2009 Annual Report
- 2008 Annual Report
- 2007 Annual Report
- 2006 Annual Report
Biennial Report Nebraska Resources Development Fund
Annual Hydrographic Report and Station List
DNR Biennial Reports
DNR Newsletter
Floodplain Newsletter and Technical Publications
- Floodplain Newsletter
- Nothing is Perfect - An Insider's Evaluation of Regression Equations Sets for Calculating Flood Flows in Nebraska
- Erratica Sheet - Nothing is Perfect 02/06
- State of Nebraska - Community Flood Mitigation Planning Guidebook
- Flood Preparedness and Response Handbook - 1984
A Study of Hydrologically Connected Ground and Surface Water and its Contribution to Conflicts between Ground Water Users and Surface Water Appropriators in the North Platte Natural Resources District
- Report on Hydrologically Connected Ground Water and Surface Water in the Upper Niobrara-White Natural Resources District(October, 2004)
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
Irrigation and Reclamation Districts and Water Delivery Companies (July, 2016)
Data Bank Historical Development Presentation (2003)
Republican River Basin Water Sustainability Task Force Final Report (May 7, 2012)Stop, Look and Learn About Our Natural World - 1992
Archived Reports
- Riparian Vegetation Impacts on Water Quantity, Quality and Stream Ecology (April 2012)
- Quantifying Evaporation, Crop Evapotranspiration, and the Water Balance for Tilled and Untilled Fields (Aug. 2011)
- Summary of the Issues Involving Conservation of Nebraska's Wetlands (Jan. 2000)
- An Analysis of Natural Resources District Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Duplication of Responsibility and Other Options for Facilitating Property Tax Relief. (September 1998)
- Nebraska State-led O’Neill Unit Alternatives Study (1985)
- A Study of Methods for Assessing Economic Benefits and Allocating Costs of Large Water Development Projects (Sept. 1985)
- Platte River Water Supply Downstream from Columbus (1984)
- Surface Water Resources of the Cedar River, Beaver Creek and Nearby Streams (1983)
- Surface Water Use in Nebraska’s Platte River Valley (1982)
- Sandhills Area Study-Decision Document (1981)
- Managing Water Resources Through State Natural Resources Districts (1980)
- Interbasin Transfer of Water Implementation in the State of Nebraska (1976)
- A History of Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts (1975)
- Reorganization of Water and Land Resource Agencies of the State of Nebraska—A Proposed Department of Natural Resources. (January 1969)
- Flood Report-Loup River Basin Nebraska (August 1966)