Project Name: David City Wellhead Protection & Education
Project Sponsor: City of David City
Award Amount: $29,670.00
- Fencing around well houses and motion lights
- Secondary containment around storage tanks near city wells
- Brochures, mailers, and newspaper ads promoting source water protection
- Attendance at the Groundwater Foundation annual conference and Groundwater Guardian designation ceremony.
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| 2004 David City
Water Festival |
Security fencing installed around a highly accessible well | |
| Secondary containment around storage tanks within 1000 feet of city wells |
Project Name: Keep Fairfield’s Water Secure & Pure
Project Sponsor: City of Fairfield
Award Amount: $27,641.00
- Radio activated alarm system
- Auto card system for bulk water
- Auto static water monitor
- Wellhead protection signs
- Water conservation rebates
- Lawn and soil sampling kits
- Junk car clean-up
- Replacement of leaking fire hydrants
- Attendance at the Groundwater Foundation annual conference and Groundwater Guardian designation ceremony.
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| Fairfield Cub Scouts Water Festival |
Project Name: Wilber Source Water Protection Project
Project Sponsor: City of Wilber Water Department
Award Amount: $23,825.00
- GPS equipment for contaminant source inventory
- Flow meters for irrigation management
- Deep soil/vadose zone sampling
- UNL soils home study courses
- Domestic and irrigation well nitrate testing
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Project Name: Promoting and Initiating Source Water Protection in Nebraska
Project Sponsor: The Groundwater Foundation
Award Amount: $20,000.00
- Develop and produce a source water protection public awareness campaign kit
- Develop a traveling source water educational exhibit
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Project Name: Source Water Protection for Kimball Wellfield
Project Sponsor: City of Kimball
Award Amount: $19,577.60
- Surveying municipal well locations
- Fencing around well houses
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Survey stake marking property line at on of Kimball, Nebraska’s, well houses | |
Project Name: Protecting Communities’ Source Water
Project Sponsor: Little Blue NRD
Award Amount: $18,000.00
- Wellhead Protection signs
- Drop-in transducers
- Lawn sampling kits
- Waste collection barrels
- Water conservation rebates
- Dumpsite cleanup
- Berming of fuel tanks
- Filling in cisterns
- Filter strips around wells
- Laptop computer for contaminant source inventories and presentations
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| Dumpsite on private property near Ruskin before clean-up |
Wellhead Protection
Area Signage | |
Project Name: City of Clarkson Wellhead Protection Program
Project Sponsor: City of Clarkson
Award Amount: $13,325.00
- Fencing around well house and water tower and alarm system
- Nitrate testing kit
- Groundwater model and educational materials
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Project Name: Security, Monitoring, and Educational
Improvement Project
Project Sponsor: Logan East Rural Water System
Award Amount: $12,985.00
- Alarm systems for well houses
- Educational brochure
- Conversion of test wells to monitoring wells
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Project Name: City of Holdrege Water Supply Protection Project
Project Sponsor: City of Holdrege
Award Amount: $11,500.00
- Installation of window grates and lockable doors on well houses
- Hazardous waste collection
- Installation of monitoring wells
- Equipment for update of contaminant source inventory
- Turfgrass best management practices demonstration lawns
- Educational groundwater model
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| Lockable screens on Holdrege, Nebraska’s, well houses |
Project Name: Cash for Grass
Project Sponsor: South Platte NRD
Award Amount: $6,500.00
- Xeriscaping pilot project in Sidney, Nebraska
- Rebates for conversion of lawn to Buffalograss and low-water use landscaping
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Buffalograss installation in Sidney, Nebraska | |
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