Talk:Platte River

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This page could use a map. -- ESP 03:19 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

- Note** In the first paragraph this is very confusing to the reader to the direction of the river. It is not until the second paragraph that this statement is corrected. Please clarify this sentence**

I've moved the alt name Nebraska River down a bit in the introduction. I don't think it's appropriate to use Plate River (or Nebraska River) form since it makes it seem like the title is an alternate name. Definitely no one calls it by the name anymore. It is definitely a historical footnote at this point and not an accepted modern alternate. -- Decumanus | Talk 00:05, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

"... This is also why many or most of Nebraska’s larger more bigger, exciting, dumb situated cities are located on or near the Platte River such as Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Grand Island, and North Platte. ..." Lincoln is not on the Platte River it is on Salt Creek and its early develop was from the salt flats and not water based. --Boris58 (talk) 17:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Native Peoples The artice mentions the Platte supporting colonisation. What about the role it played with natives, prior and during that era?

"...who named it the Nebraskier, an Oto word meaning "flat water"..." I wonder if that is the whole meaning in Oto, in UmoNhoN the word is Nibthaska is a compound word of ni (water) and bthaska (make or made flat with pressure). Given the geology of the Platte River basin calling the basin a place that has been pressed flat by water seems more appropriate than calling the river or the state flat water. --Boris58 (talk) 18:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The only source I have immediately to hand is 'Centennial'! --TresRoque 11:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've excised the sentence-- "There are also many reservoirs along the Platte River used to supply water for farming irrigation such as Swanson Reservoir, Lake McConaughy, and Plum Creek Reservoir." Swanson Reservoir is on the Republican River; Plum Creek Reservoir is in Pawnee County. Neither of these is in the Platte watershed at all. --Ammodramus (talk) 17:48, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Policy This section needs a lot more explanation: it'd be very unclear to someone who wasn't familiar with the issues already. It probably needs updating as well, judging by the reference to the first reading of LB962 (which passed in 2004). --Ammodramus (talk) 18:59, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've excised the paragraph: "The Platte River is a braided stream that spans from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming to the Missouri River. It then pours into the Missouri River which leads into the Mississippi River and then into the Gulf of Mexico." All of this information is duplicated in the next section. --Ammodramus (talk) 22:56, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest that the following passage in the second paragraph could be misleading: "Both of these arise from snowmelt in the eastern Rockies near the Continental Divide: the South Platte in Colorado, the North Platte in Wyoming." Although snow melt from the Rockies in Wyoming certainly contribute to the flow of the North Platte, the headwaters of the North Platte are in Colorado's North Park. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.19.220.203 (talk) 17:11, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Platte River Cooperative Hydrology Study

The article needs to be updated because "As of October 2009, the study is still ongoing" is more the 7 years ago and the links to the study internet site is broken. אביהו (talk) 11:27, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]