Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Article 23 - SOUTHWEST KANSAS GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 3
Section 5-23-4 - High plains aquifer

Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 5-23-4

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024

(a) Except as specified in subsection (b), the district shall be closed to new appropriations of water in the high plains aquifer.

(b) This regulation shall not apply to the following:

(1) Wells for domestic use;

(2) wells authorized by temporary permits;

(3) wells authorized by term permits of no more than five years;

(4) an application to appropriate 15 acre-feet of water or less if all of the following conditions are met:
(A) The area is closed to new appropriations, but the sum of the annual quantity requested by the proposed appropriation and the total quantities authorized by prior permits because of this exemption does not exceed 15 acre-feet in a circle with a radius of two miles surrounding the proposed point of diversion.

(B) Well spacing criteria have been met.

(C) Approval of the application will not authorize an additional quantity of water out of an existing well authorized by a nondomestic approval of application or water right, which would result in a total combined annual quantity of water authorized from that well in excess of 15 acre-feet.

(D) All other criteria for processing a new application have been met.

(c) Each application filed to request a well within the area described in subsection (e) shall include a driller's log, an electric log, and a laboratory analysis from a state-certified laboratory of the chloride concentrations in samples taken from whatever depths are necessary to determine the vertical location where the chloride concentrations exceed 250 milligrams per liter (mg/l). The samples shall be taken from a well located within a 300-foot radius of the proposed well. A state-certified laboratory analysis shall be used to determine the vertical location of the chloride concentrations exceeding 250 mg/l.

(d) Each well constructed in the area described in subsection (e) shall be constructed in a manner that prevents the movement of water containing 250 mg/l of chlorides beyond its naturally occurring condition.

(e) The level of chlorides may exceed 250 mg/l in the following areas:

(1) The west 1/2 of townships 33, 34, and 35 south, range 28 west in Meade County, Kansas;

(2) the east 1/2 of township 33 south, range 29 west in Meade County, Kansas;

(3) all of townships 34 and 35 south, ranges 29 and 30 west in Meade County, Kansas; and

(4) all of townships 34 and 35 south, ranges 31 and 32 west and the east 1/2 of townships 34 and 35 south, range 33 west in Seward County, Kansas.

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