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Kansas water official backs map-based notices for water-right applications
Summary
A Division of Water Resources official told the Committee on Water that House Bill 24-77 would replace posting full applications with an interactive map and require notice to all landowners within a half-mile of a point of diversion, limiting exposure of personal data and centralizing notice responsibilities at the Division.
Lane Letourneau, water appropriation program manager for the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources, told the Committee on Water that House Bill 24-77 would change how the state informs the public about water-right applications.
"We're gonna have a map on our website with the location of the point of diversion," Letourneau said, describing a plan to publish basic data — file number, location, rate, quantity and use — rather than the complete application. He said the current requirement to post full applications can expose phone…
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