WSP10478

• File Number: 8407.600
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Kansas General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1942
• Author: Kansas Board of Agri
• Title: Report of the State Board of Agriculture - Volume LXI - Progress on a State Plan of Water Resources Development
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Water Resources Development

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with their work in order that state and federal proposals might be,
to the greatest possible extent, in harmony as well as in conformity
with the needs of that portion of the basin within the state.
At the present time the Bureau of Reclamation has under con-
sideration several projects in the Kansas river basin. In cooperation
with the Bureau, the Division of Water Resources made surveys of
a number of proposed projects in the Republican river basin. The
information has been supplied to the Bureau for use in connection
with a plan of irrigation development which it is studying.
This publication, in the nature of a progress report, is the first of
a series to be prepared dealing with the subject of "A State Plan of
Water Resources Development." It is expected to consider each
of the principal drainage basin within the state as a unit and work
out a comprehensive plan for the use and control of the water re-
sources of each. A plan for the state as a whole will thus be evolved
o\'er a period of years as this work is extended to include all of the
major streams in Kansas.
The organization of a staff to start preparation of the plan was
undertaken when the governor approved the legislative act of 1941
appropriating funds for initiating this long-delayed and much-needed
development. The work embraces the making of surveys and field
investigations as well as office studies and plans, and requires the
services of especially trained or experienced engineers.
Because of the growing needs of national defense during the sum-
mer of 1941, it was not an opportune time to organize a staff. Capa-
ble men were obtained for key positions, but it was practically im-
possible to secure the services of younger men for subordinate places.
The work was started with a fairly well organized field staff, but
only a partially organized office staff. Later, as the United States
became directly involved in the war, the personnel of the depart-
ment was reduced as men left to enter military and naval service,
or to accept employment in war industries. Thus, the work was
handicapped. Nevertheless, substantial progress has been made as
oet forth in detail in this report.

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