$750,000 Grant Goes to North Platte Natural Resources Districts to Help Landowners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

For More Information please contact John Berge or David Wolf, 632-2749 Date: April 18, 2016 Press Conference Announcement 

The North Platte Natural Resources District (NRD) will be hosting a press conference announcing a $750,000 grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust to expand the District’s telemetry program. The NRD’s telemetry project will provide telemetry units to producers/landowners free of charge, with the goal of reading ground water flow meters remotely. 
The AMCi MeterEye telemetry unit has a camera located under the hood and will take a picture of the flow meter once a day. That image is then wirelessly delivered to a website, through a cellular connection, where it is stored and then converted to digital data and made available via a webpage to the NRD and cooperating landowners. 

The press conference will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2016 the North Platte NRD office’s Education Room. The press conference will start at 10:30 a.m., and a short trip to one of the telemetry sites will happen immediately afterwards. The NRD received a $250,000 grant from the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources earlier this year for telemetry and the NRD is proud to announce that we are bringing in a total of $1 million dollars in grant funds into the District to help producers with their water management decisions.