Tom Riley
P.E. NeDNR Director
Tom is the Director at the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (the Department). He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska where he received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering. He has worked with water users and stakeholders across the state of Nebraska to help solve their unique and challenging water resource problems. Prior to coming to the Department, he spent over three decades consulting with customers across the Nebraska and the country, most recently at the Flatwater Group, where he was a company founder. Tom has worked extensively on Nebraska’s compacts and decrees along with consumptive management projects throughout the state. His water projects include irrigation and water supply, conjunctive management, restoration of Nebraska’s unique saline wetlands, and stream and reservoir restoration.
