
Stream Obstructions and Channel Changes
Water Structures is the permitting entity that monitors the impacts of structures on affected landowners. Structures may include bridges, culverts, pipeline crossings, weirs, and low-water crossings.
In Kansas, a stream is any watercourse that has a well-defined bed and well-defined banks and that has a watershed exceeding a certain number of acres in three zones. The chart below explains this further:

Other permits may be required, including but not limited to:
1. Permit to Appropriate Water from the Water Appropriation Program
2. Construction permits from county and local government
3. Corps of Engineers
Clean Water Act Permit
Phone: 816-389-3990
4. Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Permit for Stormwater Run-Off
Phone: 785-296-5545
Chapter 82a, Article 3 - Obstructions in Streams
K.S.A. 82a-301 to 327 Revised September 2010
Obstructions in Streams regulations
K.A.R. 5-40-1 thru 5-40-106; 5-41-1 thru 5-41-6; 5-42-1 thru 5-42-5; 5-43-1 thru 5-43-5 & K.A.R. 5-46-1 thru 5-46-4 Revised 10/3/08
Design of Levees regulations
K.A.R. 5-45-1 thru 5-45-23
Applications for Permit to Construct a Dam
Application for Permit of a Stream Obstuction
Application for 2-100 Permit - Dams, Stream Obstructions, and Channel Changes
Application for 2-190 Permit - Bridge or Culvert Replacement Project
Application for 2-196 Permit - Pipeline Crossing or Buried Cable
Application for Permit of Levees
Application for 3-100 Permit - Construction or Maintenance of Levees or Floodplain Fills
Contact information:
Chad Voigt, P.E.
Water Structures Program Manager
109 SW 9th Street, 2nd Floor
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: (785) 296-2933
Fax: (785) 296-1176
WaterStructures@kda.ks.gov