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Public Water Dema~ The Tulsa District Corps of Engineers. through the services of the Southwestern Division Corps of Engineers, conducted field surveys in August 1984 to collect data on municipal and indus- trial water supply systems in the Southeastern portion of Kansaso This effort represented the first phase of a study that was to comprise all Kansas counties within the jurisdiction of the Tulsa Districto The basins included in the study are the Cimarron, Lower Arkansas, Neosho, Upper Arkansas, Verdigris and the Walnut river basinso The Kansas Water Office began to develop Electric Power Genera- tion, Industrial, Mining and Public Water Use surveys in the fall of 1984 and planned a comprehensive statewide efforto Upon learning of the two independent studies; the Kansas Water Office and the Tulsa District Corps of Engineers began working cooperatively to ensure that survey respondents would not be contacted by both the Kansas Water Office and the Southwestern Division Corps of Engineerso Plans were also made to share the data that were being collected and to decide upon a common methodology to project pUblic water useo It should be emphasized that all industrial water use estimates were removed from the public water use estimates; hence. the 1984 Kansas pUblic water use estimates consist of rural domestic, urban domestic and commercial water useo Although most of the public water use data collected by the Southwestern Division corps of Engineers represented calendar year 1983 data, the Kansas pUblic water use estimates are shown as 1984 calendar use estimates because: 1) 1984 data were used for all counties surveyed by the Kansas Water Office. 2) 1983 public water use figures may be considered as estimates for 1984, 3) 1984 U.So Census Bureau county population estimates were used and 4) 1984 municipally-supplied industrial water use estimates were subtracted from all pUblic water use estimates Data Collection Procedures (Corps of Engineers) The Southwestern Division Corps of Engineers conducted field surveys during the period from August. 1984 to March, 1986 for the pUblic water supply studyo The 55 counties included in this study were Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee. Clark. Coffey. Comanche, cowley, Crawford, Edwards, Elk, Finney, Ford. Grant, Gray, Greeley, Greenwood. 36