82a-739. Installation of water flow measurement and data recording devices below Cedar Bluff reservoir; authorization of property owners; dissemination of data and report to legislative committees. The Kansas water office shall purchase one water flow measurement device, and any required data recording device for use with such water flow measurement device, and shall provide for the permanent installation of such devices below the dam of the Cedar Bluff reservoir in accordance with this section. The water flow measurement device and any required data recording device shall be installed at a downstream, man-made channel or drop structure. Prior to installing any such water flow measurement device and any required data recording device, the Kansas water office shall obtain a written authorization from all owners of the property at the location where the water flow measurement device and any required data recording device are to be installed. All data collected by such water flow measurement device shall be made available to the general public electronically through the internet on a real time basis as it is collected and shall be reported to the senate committee on natural resources, the senate committee on ways and means subcommittee on the Kansas water office, the house committee on environment, and the house agriculture and natural resources budget committee during the 2007 regular session of the legislature.
History: L. 2006, ch. 198, ยง 2; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 82a - Waters And Watercourses
Article 7 - Appropriation Of Water For Beneficial Use
82a-702 Dedication of use of water.
82a-703 Water may be appropriated subject to vested rights.
82a-703a Minimum streamflows; duties of chief engineer.
82a-703b Minimum desirable streamflows; condition of appropriation right, applicability.
82a-703c Minimum streamflows established.
82a-704a Determination of vested rights; procedure; duties of chief engineer.
82a-704c Same; supplemental to Kansas water appropriation act.
82a-705 Acquisition of a new appropriation right to use water other than domestic; approval.
82a-705a Domestic use after June 28, 1945; information to chief engineer.
82a-706 Duties of chief engineer as to beneficial use and rights of priority of appropriation.
82a-706a Rules, regulations and standards.
82a-706c Meters, gages and other measuring devices; waste and quality checks.
82a-706d Duties of attorney general.
82a-706e State field offices and commissioners.
82a-707 Principles governing appropriations; priorities.
82a-708a Applications for permits to appropriate water; fee.
82a-708c Application for term permits to appropriate water; fee.
82a-709 Same; contents; time of filing.
82a-711a Same; express conditions of appropriations.
82a-712 Same; notice of approval or disapproval of application; approval constitutes permit.
82a-713 Same; limiting time for perfection of appropriation; extension.
82a-714 Same; completion of works; extension of time; certificate of appropriation; fees.
82a-715 Same; validation of certain applications.
82a-716 Common-law claimants; action for compensation; injunctions.
82a-717a Diversions by common-law claimants and others; complaints, investigations and orders.
82a-718 Abandonment of water rights; notices; hearing; review of action; exceptions.
82a-719 Distribution of water according to decree of court.
82a-720 Same; certified copies of decrees.
82a-721a Same; damages to land.
82a-724 Review of administrative actions.
82a-727 Temporary permits to appropriate water; extension; fee; rules and regulations.
82a-728 Unlawful acts; penalties.
82a-729 Act supplemental to article 7 of chapter 82a of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
82a-731 Water appropriation certification fund created; expenditures therefrom.
82a-732 Annual water use report required; penalty for violations.
82a-733 Conservation plans and practices.
82a-734a Sand and gravel pits, land-based; prohibition on certain rules and regulations, conditions.
82a-736 Multi-year flex accounts; definitions; establishment; conditions; term permits; fees.
82a-737 Civil enforcement of act.
82a-738 Studies and recommendations of chief engineer and state geological survey; report.
82a-742 Division of a water right; application; fee.
82a-743 Limited transfer permits; term; fee; base water right; rules and regulations.
82a-744 Water management and conservation measures; due consideration by chief engineer.
82a-761 Title; implementation.
82a-763 Water bank authority; deposits and leases; safe deposit accounts; restrictions.
82a-764 Bankable water right, determination of.
82a-765 Water bank charter; approval; requirements.
82a-766 Water bank annual reports.
82a-767 Evaluation of water bank; evaluation team; extension or lapse of charter; charter review.
82a-768 Application of law relating to abandonment of water right.
82a-769 Rules and regulations.
82a-771 Payment of certain costs of water bank.