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Draft Environmental Impact Statement released for Equus Beds ASR Project

Media Contact: Kim Parish, (512) 899-4165, 07/10/2009 08:00
Michael R. Odle, modle@usbr.gov

For Release: July 10, 2009

The Bureau of Reclamation and the City of Wichita, Kansas, have made available for public review and comment a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Aquifer Storage Recharge and Recovery Project.

The ASR Project would supply municipal and industrial (M&I) water to the City of Wichita and surrounding area in southeastern Kansas.

The purpose of the DEIS is to describe the environmental impacts resulting from the pumping of water from the Little Arkansas River when flows are above normal base flow and storing the water in the region's Equus Beds Aquifer for later re-use.

The DEIS can be downloaded from www.usbr.gov/gp/otao/equus and is available for review and comment through September 11, 2009. You may submit written comments to Equus Beds ASR Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Bureau of Reclamation, Oklahoma-Texas Area Office, 5924 NW 2nd Street, Ste 200, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73127; or by emailing them to cwebster@usbr.gov.

For additional information or to request a hard copy, please contact Charlie Webster, Bureau of Reclamation, at 405-470-4831, or cwebster@usbr.gov.

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Relevant Link:

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