2009-12-01T00:00:00-06:00 20079 2010-01-11T21:35:17-06:00 To Provide Municipal and Industrial (M&I) Water to City and Surrounding Region, Equus Beds Division, Wichita Project, Kansas, Harvey, Sedgwick, and Reno Counties, KS 8 7 523 http://www.usbr.gov/gp/otao/equus/final_eis_1109.pdf Equus Beds Aquifer Storage Recharge and Recovery Project 20

BR The document analyzes potential impacts from the Equus Beds Aquifer Storage Recharge and Recovery Project (ASR). Two alternatives are considered in the EIS. The Preferred Alternative would divert a total of 100 MGD of water from the Little Arkansas River during high flows to recharge the Equus Beds Aquifer for later municipal and industrial M&I) use by the City. The Federal government would fund (cost-share) up to 25% (or $30 million, whichever is less) of the construction costs, of Phases IIb, III and IV of the ASR. The City has already completed Phase I and is working on Phase IIa. No Federal funding was used for these early phases. Since the City would complete the project without the Federal cost-share, the same 100 MGD ASR is also considered as the No Action Alternative. There would be no Federal funding in No Action.

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