Kan. Admin. Regs. § 5-23-4 - High plains aquifer
(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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