South Platte
Americannoun
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Around the same time, however, Colorado began drawing more from the South Platte to support booming population growth, primarily in the Denver area.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
Way back in 1923, Colorado and Nebraska signed a treaty that governed the use of one segment of the South Platte River, which flows from the Colorado Rockies through Denver and into Nebraska.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
“Our longstanding compliance of and respect for the water agreement between our states on the South Platte River remains intact and we hope that our partners in Nebraska will show that they share that respect.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2022
The South Platte River flows northeast from Colorado’s fast-growing Front Range and into Nebraska, where it merges with the North Platte River to form the Platte River before crossing the rest of the state.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022
Among the streams which, taking rise in the eastern gorges of the Rocky Mountains, run into the South Platte, the most considerable has somehow acquired the French name of Cache la Poudre.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace
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