Justus H. Fugate Collection of Kansas Water Resources Board Papers

Collection Summary

Title: Justus H. Fugate Collection of Kansas Water Resources Board Papers
Call Number: MS 95-17
Size: 4.0 linear feet
Acquisition: Donated by Justus H. Fugate
Processed by: JEO, 4-29-1995; JEF, 2-18-1998; MN, 11-24-2014
Restrictions: None

Literary Rights

Literary rights were not granted to Wichita State University. When permission is granted to examine the manuscripts, it is not an authorization to publish them. Manuscripts cannot be used for publication without regard for common law literary rights, copyright laws and the laws of libel. It is the responsibility of the researcher and his/her publisher to obtain permission to publish. Scholars and students who eventually plan to have their work published are urged to make inquiry regarding overall restrictions on publication before initial research.

Content Note

The Justus H. Fugate Collection contains correspondence, letters, speeches, notes, published manuscripts, and other materials. These include materials concerning the efforts of the Kansas Water Resources Board from 1969 to 1984 Justus H. Fugate was a member of the board from 1969 and resigned as chairman in June 1978. These papers shed light on the water resources in Kansas and the measures taken to conserve or use dwindling supplies more wisely in the face of increasing demand.

Detailed Description: Box and Folder Listing

Box 1 FF 1 Water Resources Board 1972-1973. This file contains correspondence, clippings, and articles regarding the weather modification experiments. Also included is a copy of Senate Bill No. 364 concerning weather modification.
Box 1 FF 2 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, June 14, 1974. This file includes the report, minutes, administrative matters, board action, new business, progress reports concerning water requirements, and demands of Kansas counties.
Box 1 FF 3 Kansas Water Resources Board Meetings, September 19, 1974. This file includes maps, agendas, progress reports, recourse estimates, correspondence regarding the water requirements of Kansas counties.
Box 1 FF 4 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, December 13, 1974. This file includes correspondence, reports, state documents concerning water marking and weather modification in Kansas.
Box 1 FF 5 Kansas Water Resource Board, 1973 through 1975. This file includes correspondence, minutes, and agendas concerning the Kansas Water Resource Board. Items of note includes: An agreement between the United States and the State of Kansas concerning water supply storage in Hillsdale Lake, Kansas; article regarding Kansas water resource and weather control in regard to Mr. Justus Fugate’s chairmanship of the board.
Box 1 FF 6 Kansas Water Resources Board 1975 through 1976. This file includes correspondence to Fugate, minutes of meetings, agendas, clippings, articles, notes, statements concerning the Kansas Water Racecourse Board. Items of note include a copy of the 1975 Kansas Weather Modification Act, and a contract between Kansas and KG & E for a water supply.
Box 1 FF 7 Kansas Water Resource Board, 1976. This file contains reports, correspondence, and memos describing the activities of the Kansas Water Resources Board. Included is a report concerning the Development of Five Year goals and plan for Kansas Water Resources Board, 1976 and minutes of board meetings.
Box 1 FF 8 Kansas Water Resource Board Meeting, March 8, 1974. This file contains the report which includes minutes, against and progress reports.
Box 1 FF 9 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, March 14, 1975. This file contains the report containing memos, correspondence, agendas, minutes, and a progress reports regarding the meeting.
Box 1 FF 10 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, June 13, 1975. This file contains the report containing progress reports, board memos, and administration schedules concerning the board meetings.
Box 1 FF 11 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, September 11, 1975. This file contains the report containing progress reports, agendas, and schedules concerning the board meetings.
Box 1 FF 12 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, December 12, 1975. This file contains memos, agendas, schedules, reports and a water purchase contract. All the material concerns the actions and decisions of the board meeting.
Box 1 FF 13 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, March 5, 1976. This file contains progress reports, agendas, schedules and diagrams regarding the water resources and options of Kansas.
Box 1 FF 14 State Water Plan Hearing, October 1976. This file contains correspondence from the board to board members, agenda of hearing, statement of the chairman, rules and regulations of the board, and lists of people and organizations regarding water resources in Kansas.
Box 1 FF 15 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, December 9-10, 1976. This file contains notes, agendas, reports of the water resources board. Also included is a copy of Kansas Water News, Volume 18 and a copy of the Hillsdale Lake Water Supply District Act.
Box 1 FF 16 Kansas Water Resource Board Budgets, 1970-1976. This file contains reports, graphs and charts for the board for 1967, 1970, and 1976. This file also includes the Kansas Water Resources Boar Motions, 1971-1977.
Box 1 FF 17 Kansas Water Resources Board Unpunchable Material. This file contains reports, brochures, and correspondence not included in other bound reports.
Box 1 FF 18 Justus H. Fugate Correspondence, 1976 This file contains correspondence concerning the activities of the Water Resource Board.
Box 2 FF 1 Water Diversion Commission, 1968. This file contains correspondence and articles regarding water diversion activities in the Mississippi and Arkansas River Valleys.
Box 2 FF 2 National Waterways Conference, 1969-1971-1972. This file contains leaflets, brochures, and reports of the National Waterways Conference, Inc.
Box 2 FF 3 Kaw Darn and Reservoir Development Association, Inc., 1972, 1978. This file contains correspondence and reports of association to board of directors.
Box 2 FF 4 Arkansas Basin Development Association in Kansas, 1972. This file contains correspondence of Fugate in regard to the Arkansas Board Development Association and membership drives.
Box 2 FF 5 MO-ARK Associations, 1973-1980. This file contains copies of MO-ARK magazine, Water.
Box 2 FF 6 Four State Committee - Fugate, 1969-1974. This file contains correspondence, statements, reports, and schedules for members of the Arkansas River Basin Interstate Commerce Committee and the Arkansas River. Four states committees regarding water resource.
Box 2 FF 7 Missouri River Basin Commission, 1974. This file includes correspondence, “MRBO Basin Bulletin” copies, and a copy of the Missouri River Basin Committee Annual Report, 1972.
Box 2 FF 8 Water Resources Council Kansas States Chamber of Commerce, 1966, 1970. This file contains miscellaneous correspondence, letters, bulletins of council regarding water resources within the state.
Box 2 FF 9 National Waterways Conference, Inc. 1975 to 1978. This file contains correspondence, letters, bulletins of the conference regarding use, management, and legislation regarding National Waterways.
Box 2 FF 10 Hearing on Permit for Weather Modification Operation 4-H Building Lakin, Kansas, April 1, 1975. This file contains agendas, press release, and plans regarding the permit.
Box 2 FF 11 State of Kansas Budget Appeal - Kansas Water Resources Board, 1975. 1976. This file contains the copies of the budget requests for the water board for 1975 and 1976.
Box 2 FF 12 Application for Position of Executive Director, July 30, 1976. This file includes correspondence and applications.
Box 2 FF 13 National Conference on Water, St. Louis, Missouri, May 23-25, 1977. This file contains reports, agendas, and schedules form the conference Fugate attended.
Box 2 FF 14 National Conference on Water, May 23-25, 1977. This file contains correspondence, position papers and studies at the conference concerning water resource policy.
Box 3 FF 1 Budget Appeal Fiscal Year 1977. This file contains the budge request for the Kansas Water Resources Board for fiscal years 1976 and 1977.
Box 3 FF 2 Governor’s Task Force on Water Resources, 1977. This file contains the reports made to the governor regarding Water Resources Activities and Program Coordination, included also one related correspondence, letters, and memos.
Box 3 FF 3 Kansas Water Resources Board Meetings, March 3 & 4, 1977. This file contains minutes of the meetings, agendas, reports, and miscellaneous meet notes.
Box 3 FF 4 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, May 17-18, 1977. This file includes agendas, schedules, programs, reports, and notes on the meeting.
Box 3 FF 5 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, September 6-7, 1977. This file contains agendas, summaries, schedules, reports, correspondence and news releases regarding the meeting.
Box 3 FF 6 Kansas Water Resource Board Meeting, November 30-December 1, 1977. This file contains summaries, reports, and agenda items of the board meetings.
Box 3 FF 7 Kansas Water Resource Board Agenda - Special Meeting, December 29, 1977. This file includes memos, reports, proposed motions, and water purchase contract concerning the board.
Box 3 FF 8 Kansas Water Resource Board Meeting Special Meeting, December 29, 1977 - Water Contracts. This file contains proposed water contracts between the State of Kansas and Kansas counties and towns.
Box 3 FF 9 Kansas Water Resource Board, 1977. This file contains correspondence, agendas, memos, and newspaper articles concerning the activities of the board and water resources in Kansas.
Box 3 FF 10 Ground Water Management Strategies, 1977. This file contains the report by the Kansas Water Resources Board.
Box 3 FF 11 Kansas Water Resource Board, Fiscal Year 1978 Budget. This file contains the budget report for fiscal year 1978.
Box 3 FF 12 Kansas Water Resources, 1978. This file contains correspondence and memos regarding the activities of the Kansas Water Resources Board.
Box 3 FF 13 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, March 9 and 10, 1978. This file contains correspondence, agendas, proposals, and schedules of the board meeting.
Box 3 FF 14 Kansas Water Resources Board Meeting, May 18-19, 1978. This file contains memos, reports, correspondence, agendas and schedules of the board meeting.
Box 3 FF 15 Kansas Water Resources Board, 1978. This file contains a list of the board stuff, correspondence, and reports concerning the activities of the board.
Box 3 FF 16 Kansas Water Resources Board, 1978-continued. This file contains reports, agendas, “fact sheets” regarding water quality, memos, and reports and a letter from Gov. Bennett to Fugate thanking for source.
Box 3 FF 17 Kansas Water Resources Board Five Year Goals and Plans, Fiscal Years 1978-1982. This file contains the goal reports, and a 1978 proposal for future programs for the fiscal year 1980.
Box 3 FF 18 Kansas Water Resource Board - Unpunchable Materials, 1978. This file includes an Interim Report of the Governor’s Task Force on Water Resources, 1977 and a 1978 Priorities Report by the Missouri River Basin Commission.
Box 4 FF 1 Arkansas Basin Development Association in Oklahoma, 1973-1984. This file contains correspondence, memos, pamphlets and brochures regarding the activities of the Arkansas Basin Development Association.
Box 4 FF 2 Kansas Water Resource Board Fiscal Year 1979 Budget Request. This file contains correspondence, memos, and the report regarding the enclosed budget request.
Box 4 FF 3 Fiscal Year 1979 Budget Appeal. This file contains correspondence and memos to the Department of Administration by James Powers, Executive Director of the Water Resources Board concerning the 1979 budget.
Box 4 FF 4 Report on the Laws of Kansas pertaining to the beneficial use of water. Bulletin Number 3, November 1956. This file contains the report/bulletin. Also includes A Primer on Water by the U.S. Geological Society.
Box 4 FF 5 A Study of Water Quality Control Needs, 1967. This file contains the water resources board publication that describes Kansas water quality, needs, problems, and future requirements.
Box 4 FF 6 A Methodology for inventorying and evaluating the scenic quality and related recreational value of Kansas streams, 1970. This file includes report that explores recreational value of the Caney River, Lyons Creek, Marais des Cygnes River, and the Verdigris River.
Box 4 FF 7 Kansas - Water Resource Development, 1971. This file includes a copy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report.
Box 4 FF 8 State of Kansas - State Water Plan Studies Part B, Kansas Long Rage Water Requirements, 1972. This file contains the study.
Box 4 FF 9 Flood Plan Information, Kansas and Big Blue Rivers, Manhattan, Kansas, 1972. This file contains the report prepared for the City of Manhattan, Kansas by Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. This file also includes the pamphlet, Floods in Manhattan, Kansas on Kansas River and Big Blue Rivers.
Box 4 FF 10 An Action Program for Development of the Arkansas River Basin, January 1973. This file contains the copy of the Action Program for Arkansas River Development sent to Justice Fugate for assistance in Kansas Water Resource Development.
Box 4 FF 11 Fluvial Sediment in the Arkansas River Basin Bulletin 19, 1977. This file contains a copy of the report published by the Kansas Water Resources Board.
Box 4 FF 12 Water Resources Coordination Directory, November 1979. This file contains the coordination directory for planing studies and reports for the United States and government departments.
Box 4 FF 13 Institutional Constraints on Alternative Water for Energy, A Guidebook for Regional Assessments, 1980. This file includes the U.S. Department of Energy publication.
Box 4 FF 14 Kansas Water News, 1969-1975. THIS file contains copies of the Kansas Water News.
Box 4 FF 15 Article Ground Water Recharge Wet - Walnut Creek, 1971. This file includes the report.
Box 4 FF 16 Natural and Artificial Ground Water Recharge Wet Walnut Creek, 1972. This file includes the report.
Box 4 FF 17 Arkansas Walnut Valley Basin Development This file contains correspondence from 1986-1977 concerning water resources and flood control in River Valley.
Box 4 FF 18 Arkansas River Basin Compact Kansas - Oklahoma 1965 Supplement No 1 & 2. This file contains two publications.
Box 4 FF 19 Kansas Water Resources Research Institute, Project Completion Report, 1965-1966. This file includes the report.
Box 4 FF 20 A Hydrologic Groundwater Study of Stanton and Grant Counties, 1967. This file contains the report.
Box 4 FF 21 Kansas - Oklahoma Arkansas River Commission, 1971. This file contains the report.
Box 4 FF 22 Kansas Stream Flow Characteristics - In-Channel Hydraulic Geometry of Streams in Kansas, June 1971. This file includes the report.
Box 4 FF 23 Saline Water Study, 1972 This file includes the preliminary report.
Box 4 FF 24 Wolf - Coffee Lake Public Meeting, April 2, 1973. This file contains drafts of the public meeting concerning Wolf-Coffee Lake, in Johnson County, Kansas.
Box 4 FF 25 Missouri River Basin Commission, Annual Report 1973 This file contain the report.
Box 4 FF 26 The Old Smoky River Channel, April 30, 1974. This file contain the program for a public meeting concerning the channel project.
Box 4 FF 27 Kansas State Water Plan - Water Supply and Storage Program, 1977. This file contains the report.
Box 4 FF 28 Weather Modification Activities in Kansas, 1972-1977. This file contain a special report to the governor and legislature.
Box 4 FF 29 State of Kansas - Contract between state and the City of Lawrence, 1977. This file contain a copy of Water Purchase Contract.
Box 4 FF 30 Resume of President Carter’s National Water Policy Statement. This file contains a copy of report prepared by James A. Power for the Kansas Water Resources Board and reports on the President’s Water Policy.
Box 4 FF 31 Extension Arkansas River Navigation to South Central Kansas. This file includes a bound report by Mid-Arkansas Valley Development Association (MOVDA.) This is Justus H. Fugate’s personal copy.
Box 4 FF 32 Certificate - Fugate. This file contains the official appointment of Justus Fugate to the Kansas Tri-State Water Resources Committee by Governor Robert Docking, May 4, 1968.
Box 4 FF 33 State of Kansas - Public Water Supply and Solutions, 1978. This file contains a copy of the report and a copy of State Water Policies and Objectives, 1978.