Report of the State Irrigation Commissioner to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture |
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Page 16
... storage reservoir holding approximately 30,000 acre feet , and which is filled during the nonirrigating season , the Kansas ditches have not received more than half the water which they need or which they are entitled to ; nor can they ...
... storage reservoir holding approximately 30,000 acre feet , and which is filled during the nonirrigating season , the Kansas ditches have not received more than half the water which they need or which they are entitled to ; nor can they ...
Page 17
... storage works have been built , and others are now in the process of construction , the purpose of which is to store the flood waters of the river and its tributaries and apply such water to the irrigation of ad- ditional lands in ...
... storage works have been built , and others are now in the process of construction , the purpose of which is to store the flood waters of the river and its tributaries and apply such water to the irrigation of ad- ditional lands in ...
Page 7
... Storage reservoirs , if built , would have to be in Colorado , for the reason that there is little opportunity for storage after the water reaches Kansas , and any plan of development Biennial Report , 1920 - '22 . 7.
... Storage reservoirs , if built , would have to be in Colorado , for the reason that there is little opportunity for storage after the water reaches Kansas , and any plan of development Biennial Report , 1920 - '22 . 7.
Page 8
... storage received special consideration , but no complete agreement has been reached . The principal difficulty at this time seems to be the re- luctance of some of the Kansas water users to accept storage in Colorado in lieu of their ...
... storage received special consideration , but no complete agreement has been reached . The principal difficulty at this time seems to be the re- luctance of some of the Kansas water users to accept storage in Colorado in lieu of their ...
Page 10
... of the Kansas line . This de- crease was due mostly to the natural storage afforded by the wide , shallow valley as the water flooded over the land . · The property loss in Colorado was estimated at over $ 10 Irrigation Commissioner .
... of the Kansas line . This de- crease was due mostly to the natural storage afforded by the wide , shallow valley as the water flooded over the land . · The property loss in Colorado was estimated at over $ 10 Irrigation Commissioner .
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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...