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The confluence of the Little Arkansas and Arkansas rivers in Wichita, Kansas. The river originates in central Kansas in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. [3] [4] Its source lies in extreme south-central Ellsworth County immediately north of Geneseo, Kansas.
The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [1] Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back ...
An iconic bridge spanning the Little Arkansas River on 13th Street could soon be under construction. The 92-year-old Minisa Bridge will undergo $1 million in repairs and aesthetic rehabilitation ...
Wichita suffered severe floods of the Arkansas river in 1877, 1904, 1916, 1923, 1944, 1951 and 1955. In 1944 the city flooded 3 times in 11 days. [ 242 ] As a result of the 1944 flood, the idea for the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway (locally known as the "Big Ditch") was conceived.
Evergy will hold an open house Tuesday to update residents on its reworked north-central Wichita transmission replacement projects. ... Riverside and the Little Arkansas River,” said Susie ...
Riverside is located at (37.698611, -97.359722) at an elevation of 1,306 feet (398 m The Arkansas River forms its western and southern border, 13th Street North its northern border, and Bitting Street, the Little Arkansas River, and Nims Street its eastern border.
Wichita has a new plan to redevelop the east bank of the Arkansas River downtown that would save Century II and the former downtown library while expanding convention center space for less than ...
The Kansas–Oklahoma Arkansas River Basin Compact was created in 1965 to promote mutual consideration and equity over water use in the basin shared by those states. The Kansas–Oklahoma Arkansas River Commission was established, charged with administering the compact and reducing pollution.