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<br />Water Resources Development
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<br />The main stem and its tributaries provide a natural avenue for
<br />the disposal of sewage and industrial wastes for the numerous towns
<br />in the basin. Many of these towns provide no means for treatment
<br />of sewage whatsoever, with the result that in periods of low-flow,
<br />there is a concentration of pollution which creates a very objec-
<br />tionable, offensive and insanitary condition.
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<br />INVESTIGATION AND PLANNING
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<br />Many reports by federal, state, municipal and private agencies
<br />are available which pertain to flood problems on the Kansas river
<br />and tributaries. Most of these reports cover only local conditions
<br />and do not offer any comprehensive. plan of flood control for the
<br />basin as a whole. In 1933 a report was submitted to Congress by
<br />the War Department following a study of flood control on the Kan-
<br />sas river by a program of levees and reservoirs. In the preparation
<br />of the report, several reservoir sites were considered and their ef-
<br />fectiveness determined in the control of floods on the lower portion
<br />of the Kansas river.
<br />In 1940 II subsequent report was submitted to Congress of flood
<br />control in the Republican river basin pursuant to an act of Con-
<br />gress approved in 1936. This study was initiated after the disastrous
<br />flood of 1935, which resulted in great property damage and the loss
<br />of 105 lives.
<br />As a result of these studies, reservoirs were authorized for con-
<br />struction near Kanopolis on the Smoky Hill river in Ellsworth
<br />county; in Harlan county, Nebraska, on the Republican and at
<br />Tuttle creek on the Big Blue river above Manhattan.
<br />In a report to Congress in 1944, the War Department and the
<br />Bureau of Reclamation, each have proposed the construction of sev~
<br />eral reservoirs in the Kansas Basin as a part of a comprehensive
<br />plan for the development and use of the water resources of the Mis-
<br />souri river basin. Pertinent data on each of these reservoir sites
<br />as an integral part of the state plan for the water resources de-
<br />velopment in Kansas will be discussed later in this report.
<br />In addItion to the foregoing, preliminary investigations have been
<br />made of several other reservoir sites by the Division of Water Re-
<br />sources. Most of these locations arc in the western part of the state
<br />and are primarily for irrigation purposes. As the state planning
<br />progresses, further study will be made of additional reservoirs on
<br />smaller tributaries and other works for local flood protection and
<br />water utilization.
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