Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Article 24 - NORTHWEST KANSAS GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 4
Section 5-24-1 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
As used in these regulations for the northwest Kansas groundwater management district no. 4, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings.
(a) "Area of consideration" means the two-mile-radius circle whose center is the location of the proposed point of diversion. The area of consideration equals 8,042 acres minus any area of the circle that is outside the state of Kansas.
(b) "Base acreage" has the meaning specified in K.A.R. 5-5-11(a).
(c) "Battery of wells" has the meaning specified in K.A.R. 5-1-1.
(d) "Board" means the board of directors constituting the governing body of the northwest Kansas groundwater management district no. 4.
(e) "District" means the northwest Kansas groundwater management district no. 4.
(f) "Tailwater" means that portion of the applied irrigation water that becomes runoff from the authorized place of use.
(g) "Theis analysis" means the Theis non-equilibrium equation analysis described in pp. 108-113 in "ground water and wells: a reference book for the water-well industry," published by Edward E. Johnson, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. The pages specified in this subsection are hereby adopted by reference.
(h) "Usable water" means water containing not more than 10,000 milligrams per liter of total dissolved solids.
(i) "Waste of water" has the meaning specified in K.A.R. 5-1-1.
(j) "Well" means any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, or otherwise constructed if the intended use of the excavation is for the acquisition, diversion, or artificial recharge of groundwater.
