Date: 11/6/26 10:06 am From: Mike Rader [KDWP] <Mike.Rader...> Subject: Re: Water for Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
I have not heard anything as of yet
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Good question - maybe Mr. Rader or Mr. Seltman have some insight?
Chris Hobbs
Lenexa
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Subject: Water for Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
Hi all,
I don't anything about this, but I was just reading that water
augmentation for Quivira National Wildlife Refuge ("Rattlesnake Creek
Watershed Project") was apparently approved a few months ago.
It includes "construction of an augmentation wellfield to provide 15
to 18 cubic feet per second of water upstream of Quivira NWR".
Does anybody know when this construction (for augmentation of water)
will actually start helping water levels at Quivira? Or is this designed
more to help water access for farms than it is for the refuge itself (or
perhaps for both?). I don't know anything about the details, but I am now
interested since the plan has been approved.
https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-life/rattlesnake-creek-watershed-project-f<https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-life/rattlesnake-creek-watershed-project-f> inalized-after-years-of-contention
------------Ken Kinman (Hays, Kansas)
