Kansas Administrative Code

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-74. Design criteria for an existing illegal, unpermitted dam. (a) Except as specified in subsection (b), the design criteria specified in this subs…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-75. Maintenance of dams. Each owner of a dam that the chief engineer has authority to regulate pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-301 et seq., and amendments t…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-76. Repair or modification of a permitted or prejurisdictional dam. (a) The repair or modification of a permitted or prejurisdictional dam shall me…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-77. Easements for dams. (a) Each applicant that applies for a permit to construct a dam, modify a dam in a manner that will raise the top of the da…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-8. Acceptable application. (a) To be acceptable for filing, each application for a permit to construct, modify, or repair a dam, other stream obstr…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-9. Revoked. (Authorized by K.S.A. 82a-303a; implementing K.S.A. 82a-302; effective May 1, 1983; amended May 1, 1985; amended May 1, 1986; revoked M…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-90. Requirements for a dam safety inspection report. Each dam safety inspection report required by K.S.A. 82a-303b, and amendments thereto, shall d…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-91. Schedule for inspection of hazard class C dams. Each hazard class C dam shall be inspected every third inspection year after the inspection yea…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-92. Schedule for inspection of hazard class B dams. Each hazard class B dam shall be inspected every fifth inspection year after its initial inspec…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-93. Schedule for inspection of dams. The initial and follow-up dam safety inspections required by K.S.A. 82a-303b, and amendments thereto, for any …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 40.—Design of Earth Dams 5-40-94. Revision of schedule of inspections. For good cause shown, including a change in hazard class or repair or modification of a dam, the dam safet…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-1. Channel changes; plans and specifications. Plans for a channel change shall include the following: (a) A general location map or aerial pho…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-2. Channel changes; water velocity. The new channel shall have a conveyance capacity equal to or greater than the old channel. The water veloc…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-3. Channel changes; side slopes. The side slopes of the proposed new channel shall not be steeper than one foot vertical to two feet horizonta…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-4. Channel changes; construction by erosion. New channels shall not be constructed by erosion. (Authorized by K.S.A. 82a-303a; implementing K.…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-5. Channel changes; disposal of excavated material. (a) Material removed from the newly excavated channel shall be deposited at a location and…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 41.—Design of Channel Changes 5-41-6. Channel changes; vegetative strips on new channels. On each new channel project, except a grassed waterway constructed for the purpose of c…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 42.—Design of Stream Obstructions 5-42-1. Stream obstructions; plans and specifications. (a) The plans required for a permit for a stream obstruction pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-301,…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 42.—Design of Stream Obstructions 5-42-2. Stream obstruction; minor. If a proposed stream obstruction will not decrease the cross sectional area of a stream channel at the locat…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 42.—Design of Stream Obstructions 5-42-3. Revoked. (Authorized by K.S.A. 82a-303a; implementing K.S.A. 82a-303; effective May 1, 1987; amended April 27, 1992; revoked Sept. 22, …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 42.—Design of Stream Obstructions 5-42-4. Stream obstruction; temporary structure. A temporary structure shall not require a stream obstruction permit from the chief engineer pu…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 42.—Design of Stream Obstructions 5-42-5. Determining the peak discharge of a one percent-chance storm. In determining the flow magnitude of a design storm, the applicant shall …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 43.—Sand Dredging Permits 5-43-1. Sand dredging operation; plans and specifications. Plans for a sand dredging operation from a stream shall include: (a) A general location map …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 43.—Sand Dredging Permits 5-43-2. Sand dredging; buffer zone. There shall be a buffer zone of not less than 500 feet between dredging operations, and between dredging operations…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 43.—Sand Dredging Permits 5-43-3. Sand dredging; operation. In counties at locations where bank lines have been established on designated streams pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-307, mat…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 43.—Sand Dredging Permits 5-43-4. Sand dredging; operations conflicting. If more than one operator proposes to operate within a given reach of a private stream, then all conflic…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 43.—Sand Dredging Permits 5-43-5. Sand dredging; operation setback. Sand dredging operations located outside the channel of a stream shall be set back a minimum of 50 feet from …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-1. Floodplain management; definitions. As used in these regulations, K.S.A. 12-766, and by the division of water resources in administering K.S.A.…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-2. Floodplain management; conditions for application for approval. Before formal adoption by the governing body of any zoning regulation that esta…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-3. Floodplain management; application for approval of zoning regulations; time limit. (a) The application for approval of zoning regulations shall…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-4. Floodplain management; zoning regulations; minimum standards and criteria. Any zoning regulation which regulates development of floodplains sha…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-5. Floodplain management; variance procedures. Any floodplain management zoning regulations shall include procedures for the approval of a varianc…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-6. Floodplain management; waiver or stricter requirements. (a) The chief engineer may waive any of the regulations adopted under this article if i…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 44.—FloodPlain Management 5-44-7. Certification of elevations. Any elevation required to be certified to meet the requirements of this article of regulations may be certified by…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-1. Levees and floodplain fills; definitions. As used in K.S.A. 24-126 and amendments thereto, in the regulations adopted pursuant to that statute, and …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-10. Levees; design criteria. Design for levees shall meet or exceed the following criteria: (a) Class A levee—the levee shall safely repel the appropri…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-11. Levees; freeboard requirements. (a) Levees not within a floodway designated by the chief engineer are required to have the following freeboard: Des…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-12. Levees and floodplain fills; setback. Except for highway and road crossings of streams, the minimum setback distance from the top of the stream ban…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-13. Levees; floodplain fills; unreasonable effect. (a) Except as set forth in subsection (b), no plans for any levee or floodplain fill that has an unr…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-14. Levees and floodplain fills; hydrologic and hydraulic analysis. (a) The applicant shall submit a hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for every levee …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-15. Floodplain fills; design criteria. Floodplain fills shall meet or exceed the following design criteria: (a) The sideslopes shall not be steeper tha…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-16. Floodplain fills; disapproval. (a) A levee or floodplain fill should not have an unreasonable effect on adjacent landowners, be adverse to the publ…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-17. Exemption—floodway fringe fills. Floodway fringe fills are exempt from applying for and obtaining approval from the chief engineer if: (a…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-18. Floodplain fills; incidental to bridge and culvert replacement projects. Each floodplain fill constructed incidental to a bridge or culvert replace…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-19. Unconsolidated material storage stockpiles and safety berms. Except as provided in K.A.R. 5-45-21 and K.A.R. 5-45-22, the prior written approval of…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-2. Levees and floodplain fills; plans and specifications. Plans for a levee or a floodplain fill must be submitted on clearly legible prints (maximum s…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department of Agriculture—Division of Water Resources Article 45.—Design of Levees 5-45-20. Application to place an unconsolidated material storage stockpile or safety berm. (a) In lieu of the maps, plans, profiles, data, and specification…