Report of the State Irrigation Commissioner to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture |
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... tables show- ing what size of the various types of pumps is required for any desired quantity of water , the number of horsepower needed to pump this water from various depths , and the estimated cost of such plants where either ...
... tables show- ing what size of the various types of pumps is required for any desired quantity of water , the number of horsepower needed to pump this water from various depths , and the estimated cost of such plants where either ...
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... table . The wells have pits about five feet in diameter dug down to water , which is about 90 feet . Fourteen - inch galvanized well casing is used through the water - bearing material , which is about 40 feet thick . The capacity of ...
... table . The wells have pits about five feet in diameter dug down to water , which is about 90 feet . Fourteen - inch galvanized well casing is used through the water - bearing material , which is about 40 feet thick . The capacity of ...
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... table . On account of the difficulty of making a tunnel through this sand for the suction pipe , the pipe was laid above the sand and about eight feet above the water table . Because of this and the fact that it was necessary to set the ...
... table . On account of the difficulty of making a tunnel through this sand for the suction pipe , the pipe was laid above the sand and about eight feet above the water table . Because of this and the fact that it was necessary to set the ...
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... table due to pumping and its recovery after pumping ceases is essential to the future of irrigation development . Our supply of ground water has commonly been referred to as inexhaustible . It is only relatively so . No doubt there is a ...
... table due to pumping and its recovery after pumping ceases is essential to the future of irrigation development . Our supply of ground water has commonly been referred to as inexhaustible . It is only relatively so . No doubt there is a ...
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... table until within a few years the ground - water elevation in the surrounding valley is as high as the top of the dam . Water for irrigation is pumped from these reservoirs . Dur- ing the first few days of pumping the surface of the ...
... table until within a few years the ground - water elevation in the surrounding valley is as high as the top of the dam . Water for irrigation is pumped from these reservoirs . Dur- ing the first few days of pumping the surface of the ...
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acre-feet Amazon canal amount of water applying hourly gage Arkansas river Arkansas valley ascertained by applying automatic graphic water-stage Board of Agriculture channel charge Colorado compact construction crops Daily discharge ascertained DAILY GAGE HEIGHT Discharge measurements diversion downstream Eastern canal engine farm farmer feet Finney county flood Garden City canal gauge head gate heights to rating highway bridge hourly gage heights installed interest irri irrigation commissioner irrigation plant irrigation pumping plant Irrigation seasons July July 25 June 19 June 30 Kansas ditches Kearny county Knapp legislature Location mile operation Pawnee river Purgatoire river rating curve Records available Records fair register of deeds river at Larned river at Syracuse Scott county Sec.-ft Sept Stambaugh station storage stream tion Total township 24 south Unirrigated Verne Wallace county water for irrigation water right water supply Weskan Wichita county yield
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Page 19 - States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States.
Page 27 - Within sixty days after the notice is posted, the claimant must commence the excavation or construction of the works in which he intends to divert the water, and must prosecute the work diligently and uninterruptedly to completion, unless temporarily interrupted by snow or rain.
Page 39 - California, but the right to the use of running water flowing in a river or stream or down a canyon or ravine may be acquired by appropriation...
Page 19 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 25 - If congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their original inherent sovereignty; such consent being the sole limitation imposed by the constitution, when given, left the states as they were before . . . whereby their compacts became of binding force, and finally settled the boundary between them: operating with the same effect as a treaty between sovereign powers.
Page 19 - River System not covered by the terms of this compact; (b) over the meaning or performance of any of the terms of this compact; (c) as to the allocation of the burdens incident to the performance of any article of this compact or the delivery of waters as herein provided: (d) as to the construction or operation of works...
Page 25 - Glover, 119 US, 543; Ouachita Packet Co. v. Aiken, 121 US, 444; Indiana v. Kentucky, 136 US, 479; Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 US, 503; Wharton v. Wise, 153 US, 155; St.
Page 41 - A failure to comply with such rules deprives the claimants of the right to the use of the water as against a subsequent claimant who complies therewith.
Page 16 - Kansas as against all the defendants, without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to institute new proceedings whenever it shall appear that through a material increase in the depletion of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado, its corporations or citizens, the substantial interests of Kansas are being injured to the extent of destroying the equitable apportionment of benefits between the two states resulting from the flow of the river.
Page 19 - ... equity in the district court of the United States in the district in which any project or part thereof is situated for the purpose of revoking for violation of its terms any permit or license issued...