Stream obstructions, dams and channel changes
Water Structures is the permitting entity that monitors the impacts of structures on affected landowners. Structures can 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:
K.S.A. 82a-301 to 305a (PDF) -The Stream Obstructions Act
Rules and Regulations (PDF) - The rules and regulations that apply to the Stream Obstructions Act
Stream Obstructions Rules and Regulations - (PDF) Rules and regulations pertaining to only stream obstructions, excluding dams
Design of Levees (PDF)
Stream Obstructions Application for Permits
6-102 (PDF) Application for permit - obstructions in streams and appropriation of water for recreational use - water projects environmental coordination act
2-100 (PDF) Application for permit - obstructions in streams and water projects environmental coordination act
2-110 (PDF) Application for certificate of completion of dam and capacity of reservoir and reduction of valued land (private dam)
2-111 (PDF) Application for certificate of completion of dam and capacity of reservoir and reduction of valued land - donation of land, easements or rights of way (watershed dam)
2-190 (PDF) Application for general permit- For bridge or culvert replacement
2-196 (PDF) Application for general permit- For pipeline crossing or buried cable
3-100 (PDF) Application and supplement for approval of levee plans or floodplain fills
Contact Information:
Ed Byrd, P.E.
109 SW 9th Street, 2nd Floor
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: 785-296-2937
Fax: 785-296-4835
WaterStructures@kda.state.ks.us