Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund

Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund

Established by the Legislature in 1963, the purpose of the Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund is to assist local sponsors with the acquisition of land rights for flood control projects. Local sponsors utilize the Fund to acquire easements or fee title to tracts that are needed to implement a project. If acquired in fee title, a tract must be disposed of within 10 years after it is purchased. Each tract is first offered at appraised value to local subdivisions of government and selected state agencies for public use. If none decide to purchase it, the tract is sold at public auction.
To date 31 tracts have been retained by local subdivisions of government or a state agency for public use. These tracts are identified on the table below. Most of the tracts are associated with PL 566 Watershed projects that have been planned and designed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. However, three are associated with levee work along the Missouri River, seven with a channel improvement project, and one, Walnut Creek, with a Nebraska Resources Development Fund project. The type and extent of recreation facility development varies at each site but most of them include basic facilities such as restrooms, picnic tables, and a boat ramp along with access roads and public parking areas. A few tracts have been developed quite extensively. The following tracts exemplify the range of public use facilities that have been developed following acquisition through the Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund.
Title 257: Regulations Governing the Administration of the Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund
Watershed Agreement Form:
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LB 71 FUND TRACTS RETAINED FOR PUBLIC USE
Project	Structure			Acres		Location		Retained By


1. Big Indian Watershed	11-A			356.5		4 mi S, 1 mi W of Wymore		Lower Big Blue NRD
2. Big Indian Watershed	5E & 5F			353		3½ W of Odell		Game & Parks Commission
3. Big Indian Watershed	16-C			320		3½ W, 4 N of Odell		Game & Parks Commission
4. Walnut Creek Watershed	2			17.66		2½ N, 1 E of Crete		Lower Big Blue NRD
5. Cub Creek Watershed	12-A			134.9		2 E, 3 N of Jansen		Lower Big Blue NRD
6. Cub Creek Watershed	9-B			84.5		3 S, ¼ E of Plymouth		Lower Big Blue NRD
7. Mud Creek Watershed	4-J			433.6		3½ E, 1½ N of Holmesville		Game & Parks Commission
8. Swan Creek Watershed	2			160		7 E of Milligan		Game & Parks Commission
9. Wilson Creek Watershed	2X & 2-23			40		3 E of Otoe		Game & Parks Commission
10. Buckley Creek Watershed	3-F			97.6		1 E, ½ N of Reynolds		Little Blue NRD
11. 32-Mile Watershed	D			107		3½ E, 5 S of Kenesaw		Little Blue NRD
12. 32-Mile Watershed	D			4.1		3½ E, 5 S of Kenesaw		Little Blue NRD
13. 32-Mile Watershed	H			160		3 S, ½ E of Juniata		Little Blue NRD
14. Sarpy R-O-W	R-613			18		2 N, 1 E of LaPlatte		Sarpy County
15. Missouri River Levee	R-616			8.5		Bellevue		Papio-Missouri River NRD
16. Missouri River Levee	R-616			79.5		Bellevue		City of Bellevue
17. Pilger Watershed	1-B			118.22		1 N, 1 E of Pilger		Lower Elkhorn NRD
18. Corporation Gulch	1-A			107.29 & lots		Norfolk		City of Norfolk
19. North Oak Watershed	6-C			160+		1 S, 2 E of Brainard		Lower Platte South NRD
20. South Branch Little Nemaha	27			46.8		2 W, 4 S of Cook		Nemaha NRD
21. Middle Big Nemaha Watershed	46			194.2		2 S, 2½ E of Crab Orchard		Game & Parks Commission

Project	Structure			Acres		Location		Retained By


22. Tekamah-Mud	4-2			4.92		4½ W of Tekamah		Papio-Missouri River NRD
23. Tekamah-Mud	4-5			1.06		4½ W of Tekamah		Papio-Missouri River NRD
24. Papillion Creek	D-17			33.25		Omaha		Papio-Missouri River NRD
25. West Branch Channel	Tract 3			0.64		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
26. West Branch Channel	Tract 5			0.33		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
27. West Branch Channel	Tract 11			0.08		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
28. West Branch Channel	Tract 12			0.13		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
29. West Branch Channel	Tract 13			0.06		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
30. West Branch Channel	Tract 24			5.03		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD
31. West Branch Channel	Tract 25			4.39		Papillion		Papio-Missouri River NRD

At the present time we have no fee title tracts that will be sold at public auction.

Project		Structure	Acres		Comments		Date to be Sold

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LB 71 FUND TRACTS RETAINED FOR PUBLIC USE