JULESBURG, Colo. — Keith County history is coming alive for Sarah and Tyler Most, in ways they don’t want.
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The century-old Tyler and Sarah Most farm sits down between the two ridges that form the "Roscoe Draw" in Keith County, about four miles southwest of Interstate 80's Roscoe exit. Its site would be drowned by the proposed 77,000-acre-foot Roscoe Draw Dam and Reservoir if Nebraska gains federal regulatory and legal clearance to complete the long-abandoned 1894 Perkins County Canal, which would rejoin the South Platte River north of the draw.
TODD VON KAMPEN, THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
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The above map shows Nebraska's preferred Perkins County Canal route from northeast Colorado. It would leave the South Platte River near Ovid, as required by the 1923 South Platte River Compact, enter Nebraska in southeast Deuel County and run through much of Keith County before rejoining the river southeast of Roscoe.
NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF WATER, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Many of the approximately 140 people at Tuesday night's Perkins County Canal open house in Julesburg, Colorado, were in their seats an hour before U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staffers began their public comments.
TODD VON KAMPEN, THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
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