A report from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows irrigation wells across the state had more water in them last year from record rainfall and historic flooding in 2019.
Aaron Young, a geologist with the Nebraska Conservation Survey Division, says the excess moisture caused a significant rise in water levels and should alleviate water shortage concerns for irrigation. “All that water came down and we had all that flooding, that flooding kept the water around on the surface for a while,” Young said.
