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Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, [1] improving the water cycle, [2] enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration, [3] increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil.
The Division of Water Resources within the Kansas Department of Agriculture governs the use and allocation of the state's water resources; regulates the construction of dams, levees and other changes to streams; represents Kansas on its four interstate river compacts; and coordinates the National Flood Insurance Program in Kansas. [2]
In Kentucky, the Agriculture Water Quality Act requires farms to create nutrient management plans, which Youngstrom, with the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, said has been an ...
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. to assess the water resources needs of watersheds (currently only river basins and regions) of the United States. to require cost-sharing agreements for environmental protection and restoration, navigation, storm damage or hurricane protection, shoreline erosion, or recreation projects under such Act (currently, only for flood control or ...
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 truck and buildings damaged by flash flooding from Troublesome Creek sit along KY 550 near Dwarf, Ky., on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Fighting a flood recovery on two fronts
The stream has always threatened the area with countless floods through history, sometimes being flooded by the Kansas River [6] [7] or flooding into Indian Creek. [8] Several floods in the early 1900s prompted a 1918-1920 engineering project creating a flood channel to the Kansas River by boring a 28 by 32 foot wide and 1,450 feet (440 m) long ...
Wildcat Creek Watershed is located in Riley County, Kansas and covers 99.5 square miles (258 km 2) The targeted area of this application is 8 square miles (21 km 2) within the city limits of Manhattan, Kansas, with an urban population density of 7,000 to 8,000 persons per square mile.