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===Irrigation=== Rainfall in Banner County is light and variable; the average yearly precipitation at the Harrisburg weather station is {{convert|14.3|in}}.<ref>[http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/data.pl?ref=N41W103+2200+253605C "Harrisburg 10NW, Banner County, Nebraska USA".] [http://www.worldclimate.com/ WorldClimate.com] Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref> Farmers responded by resorting to irrigation. The first irrigation well was drilled by the late 1920s, and others quickly followed. By the late 20th century, [[center pivot irrigation|center-pivot irrigation]] systems were in use through much of the county.<ref name=HB/> By 2000, the Pumpkin Creek basin had approximately 500 registered irrigation wells.<ref name="PN">[http://www.npnrd.org/pumpkincreek.htm "Pumpkin Creek Basin (PCB) Sub-Area".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727131812/http://www.npnrd.org/pumpkincreek.htm|date=July 27, 2011}} [http://www.npnrd.org/index.htm North Platte Natural Resources District.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727132437/http://www.npnrd.org/index.htm|date=July 27, 2011}} Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref> Groundwater pumping combined with drought conditions ended surface flow in Pumpkin Creek by 1993, and significantly reduced the valley's groundwater levels.<ref name="NR">Pope, Joanna. [ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NE/Outgoing/News/NebraskaSuccessStories/PumpkinCreekEQIP.pdf "Conservation Takes Pressure Off Pumpkin Creek".]{{Dead link|date=November 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} NRCS-Nebraska. Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref> In 2001, the North Platte Natural Resources District, which regulates water use in the watershed, declared a moratorium on the drilling of new wells, and limited existing operations to {{convert|14|in}} of irrigation water per year.<ref name=PN/> Complicating matters, lawsuits were filed contending water use in the Pumpkin Creek valley depleted flows into [[Lake McConaughy]] and interfered with the prior water rights of downstream irrigators.<ref>Hansen, Sandra. [http://www.starherald.com/articles/2009/03/11/news/local_news/doc49b5f52d6a52a553614291.txt "Lawsuit roils waters in Platte River irrigation fight".] [http://www.starherald.com/ ''Scottsbluff Star-Herald''.] March 10, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref>
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