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Middle Big Blue Watershed

April, 2005

CSP Enrollment Documents for Applicants

Description of Watershed

The total area in the watershed is 743,092 acres. This watershed is located in Butler, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Pawnee, Saline, and Seward Counties in southeast Nebraska.  There are 1784 farms in the watershed with an average size of 400 acres.

The land uses in this watershed consist of dry cropland, irrigated cropland, rangeland, and pastureland. The watershed area is predominately located in the Central Loess Plains with the remaining located in the Nebraska and Kansas Loess Drift Hills Resource Area. The topography ranges from nearly level to strongly sloping loess hills to the north around the Plum Creek valley in Butler County to the nearly level tablelands and sloping valley side of the Blue River in southern Gage County.  The soils range from well drained, loess formed silty clay loam soils in the majority of the watershed to loam and clay loam textured soils formed by glacial till in the southeast.

Photo of watershed area in Nebraska

Cropland in the watershed totals 544,800 acres. Primary crops include corn, soybeans, wheat, and grain sorghum. Other crops include alfalfa, sunflowers, and oats.

Pastureland and rangeland in the watershed totals 142,600 acres. Much of this is composed of predominately smooth brome with inclusions of switchgrass, sideoats grams, blue grama, big bluestem, and little bluestem.

Land Cover/Use

Land Use

Nebraska

 

 

Cropland

544,800

 

 

Pasture

96,700

 

 

Range

45,900

 

 

Other

55,692

 

 

Total

743,092

 

 

Map of Middle Big Blue Watershed

Picture of Middle Big Blue watershed area

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Counties in Watershed

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Program Contacts - Nebraska

John Mayberger
Program Liaison - CSP Manager
Phone: 402-437-4129
Email:  john.mayberger@ne.usda.gov

Tammi Timms
Resource Conservationist – Watershed Team Leader
Phone: 402-223-3125
Email: tammi.timms@ne.usda.gov

 

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