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Beginning at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, just east of aptly named Junction City (1,040 feet or 320 metres), the Kansas River flows some 148 miles (238 km) [6] generally eastward to join the Missouri River at Kaw Point (718 feet or 219 metres) in Kansas City, Kansas. Dropping 322 feet (98 m) on its journey seaward ...
Shortly before intersecting with the Kansas River, the Big Blue discharges its waters into a reservoir called Tuttle Creek Lake, which lies slightly northeast of Manhattan. The reservoir is a man-made flood-control measure, held back by a dam composed of the limestone , silt , and gypsum dredged out of the floodplain by bulldozers left to rust ...
Kansas Interstate River Compacts. The Division of Water Resources was created in 1927, which effectively consolidated the Kansas Water Commission of 1917 and the Division of Irrigation of 1919. George S. Knapp, who had been appointed state irrigation commissioner, became the first chief engineer in 1927.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday will enact its drought protocol. That means less water will be released to the Kansas River.
A subcontractor dumped rubble from the Docking demolition into the Kansas River, and now remediation will be required, state officials said. After Docking demolition rubble was dumped in Kansas ...
Missouri River. Osage River (MO) Little Osage River. Marmaton River; Marais des Cygnes River; Blue River. Brush Creek; Kansas River. Stranger Creek; Wakarusa River
A Report Prepared for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources and Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Kansas Geological Survey. Open-File Report 2003-49. Mandrak, Nicholas E., Changes in fish assemblages, Solomon River basin, Kansas: habitat alterations, extirpations, and introductions. Transactions of the ...
The Lloyd Shoals Dam was built in 1910 by Central Georgia Power Company, and electricity was originally generated for the city of Macon. Relative to others in the state, it is a smaller lake (about 4,750 acres (19.2 km 2 ) with 135 miles (217 km) of shoreline), which still generates electricity and provides a location for water sports , boating ...