The Division of Water Resources administers 30 laws and responsibilities including the Kansas Water Appropriation Act which governs how water is allocated and used; statutes regulating the construction of dams, levees and other changes to streams; the state's four interstate river compacts; as well as coordinating the national flood insurance program in Kansas.

Common Searches

• DWR Approved Meter List: Current list of approved water flowmeters, forms and instructions.
• Minimum Desirable Streamflow: Streams subject to and currently being administered for MDS.
• Water Use Reporting: Assistance and instructions for completing the annual water use report online.
• Quivira: Information about the investigation of the impairment complaint filed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on behalf of the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge.
• Hays R9: Information about the City of Hays' applications to KDA-DWR for water right changes and water transfer of the R9 Ranch.
• Water Conservation Area (WCA): Information about WCAs and active or pending WCA plans.
• Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA): Information about LEMAs including the GMD No. 4 District-wide LEMA, the Sheridan County 6 LEMA and the proposed GMD No. 5 Rattlesnake/Quivira LEMA.
• Wichita ASR: Information about the City's request for changes to the conditions associated with the Phase II Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project.
• Kickapoo Water Right: Information on the Kickapoo Indian Reservation Water Right Settlement Agreement.
• Republican River Compact: Information on the latest resolutions and annual meetings between Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska on this compact.
• Multi-Year Flex Accounts (MYFAs)

DWR field offices serve water users statewide. If you need to speak with someone in person, please contact the appropriate field office to schedule an appointment. Each office is managed by a water commissioner, who is the chief engineer's agent, and each is staffed with employees familiar with local water issues.

Topeka/Parsons
785-296-5733 
Nathan.Westrup@ks.gov 

Stafford
620-234-5311
Jeff.Lanterman@ks.gov

Stockton
785-425-6787
Kelly.Stewart@ks.gov

Garden City
620-276-2901 or 620-765-7110
Mike.Meyer@ks.gov

Division of Water Resources in the News

DWR Index

A

• Applications, Water Appropriation
• Applications, Water Structures
• Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)
• Arkansas IGUCA
• Arkansas River Compact, Kansas-Colorado
• Arkansas River Compact, Kansas-Oklahoma

B

• Basin field summaries
• Big Blue River Compact
• Burrton IGUCA

C

• Certificates of Appropriation
• Change Applications
• Community Rating System (CRS)
• Credit card fillable form

D

• Dam consulting engineers
• Dam safety contacts
• Dam safety inspections
• Dam safety permit requirements
• Dam Safety Program
• Dam safety, resources
• Division of Water Resources
• DWR Library

E

• Emergency Action Plans (EAP)
• Environmental Coordination Act notices (ECA notices)
• Environmental Review

F

• Field Offices
• Flood insurance
• Flood mitigation
• Floodplain, benefits of
• Floodplain Management
• Floodplain Map Viewer
• Flood Safety
• Flowmeters
• Forms, Water Appropriations

G

• Garden City Field Office
• Groundwater Management Districts
• GMD No. 1
• GMD No. 2
• GMD No. 3
• GMD No. 4
• GMD No. 5
• Groundwater models

H

• Hays R9 change and water transfer
• Hays IGUCA
• High Plains Aquifer
• HorseThief Reservoir

I

• Impairment Complaints
• Impairment Investigation, Haskell 03
• Impairment Investigation, Quivira
• Impairment Investigation Reports
• Intensive Groundwater Use Control Area (IGUCA)
• Interstate rivers and compacts

K

• Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District (KBID)
• Kansas-Colorado Arkansas River Compact
• Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas River Compact
• Kickapoo Tribe

L

• Letters of Map Change (LOMC)
• Library, DWR
• Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA)
• Lower Smoky Hill IGUCA

M

• Maps
• McPherson IGUCA
• Meters, list of approved
• Minimum Desirable Streamflow (MDS)
• Missouri River
• Missouri River Basin Meter Order
• Multi-Year Flex Accounts (MYFA)

N

• National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
• New applications and permits
• NOI (Environmental Reviews)
• Notices

O

• Ogallala - High Plains Aquifer
• Online water use reporting
• Open Records Request
• Ozark Plateaus

P

• Pawnee Valley IGUCA

Q

• Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, impairment complaint

R

• Rattlesnake Creek Management Plan
• Regulations
• Republican River Compact

S

• Smoky Hill IGUCA, Lower
• Smoky Hill IGUCA, Upper
• Stafford field office
• Stockton field office
• Stream and floodplain permit contacts
• Stream and floodplain permits

T

• Temporary Permits
• Term Permits
• Topeka field office

W

• Walnut Creek IGUCA
• Water Appropriation Forms
• Water Appropriation Program
• Water Conservation Area (WCA)
• Water Conservation Plan (WCP)
• Water law basics
• Water Technology Farms (KWO page)
• Water use reporting
• Water use reporting, online form
• Well monitoring network
• Wichita Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)

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