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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 ...
Map of principal rivers in Kansas. By drainage basin. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name ...
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
Silver Lake is a lake on the west side of the town of Silver Lake, Kansas. It is about a half mile north of the Kansas River. Having an average surface area of 14-acre (57,000 m 2), it is one of the very few natural lakes in Kansas. It originally was a part of the Kansas River and was left as a lake when the river changed course in the ...
The Elk City Reservoir is a reservoir located 7 miles (11 km) east of Elk City, Kansas.The dam that forms the lake was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.It has approximately 4,500 acres (18 km 2) of water, and 12,000 acres (49 km 2) of wildlife, and a total of over 50 miles (80 km) of shoreline.
Cheney Reservoir is a reservoir on the North Fork Ninnescah River in Reno, Kingman, and Sedgwick counties of Kansas in the United States. [5] Built and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for local water supply, it is also used for flood control and recreation.
The proposal is designed to meet river flow minimums in an interstate water compact with Kansas. ... the lake was infested with invasive carp, and by 2014, they composed over ninety percent of the ...
Tuttle Creek Lake is a reservoir on the Big Blue River 5 miles (8 km) north of Manhattan, in the Flint Hills region of northeast Kansas. It was built and is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers for the primary purpose of flood control.