The Nebraska legislature this year got in the middle of a long standing water rights dispute on the Niobrara River.
Dave Aiken, an Ag law expert with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the legislature intervened to end years of litigation over the water rights…..

Aiken says those water rights can now be used by other potential users downstream from the Spencer Dam…..

NPPD had held those water rights since early in the last century.