Kan. Admin. Regs. § 5-25-1 - Definitions
As used in these regulations for the Big Bend groundwater management district no. 5, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this regulation:
(a) "Aquifer" means a
geologic formation capable of yielding water in a quantity sufficient to supply
water to a spring or pumping well.
(b) "Baseflow" means groundwater that seeps,
flows, or is otherwise naturally discharged from an aquifer into a stream.
(c) "Baseflow node" means an
artificial point located in the channel of a stream for the purpose of
allocating a proportional amount of the baseflow to be considered when
evaluating a new application to appropriate water from a proposed point of
diversion located within two miles of the node.
(d) "Baseflow node allocation" means the
annual quantity of water assigned to a baseflow node expressed in acre-feet per
year. The baseflow node allocation shall be based on the natural discharge to a
stream, which shall be the rate of flow in the stream that is equaled or
exceeded 90 percent of the time.
(e) "Bedrock aquifer" means any consolidated
material and unconsolidated material that is older than the Dakota formation of
the Dakota aquifer system, as defined in K.A.R. 5-1-1, and that will yield
water in a quantity sufficient to supply a spring or a pumping well.
(f) "Board" means the board of directors
constituting the governing body of the Big Bend groundwater management district
no. 5.
(g) "Dakota aquifer" means
that portion of the Cretaceous Dakota formation that is capable of yielding
water in a quantity sufficient to supply water to a spring or pumping well.
(h) "District" means the Big Bend
groundwater management district no. 5.
(i) "Neat cement" means one 94-pound bag of
Portland cement mixed with five to six gallons of clean water.
(j) "Portland cement" means class A, type I
cement.
(k) "Stream" means any
watercourse, or part of a watercourse, with a well-defined bed and banks that
flows continuously during the calendar year, except during a drought.
(l) "Sustainable yield" means the
long-term yield of the source of supply, including hydraulically connected
surface water or groundwater, allowing for the reasonable raising and lowering
of the water table.
(m) "Well"
means any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, or
otherwise constructed, either by nature or by man, when the proposed use of the
excavation is for the acquisition, diversion, or artificial recharge of
groundwater.
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