Amount: $450,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: Development of a Wichita Area Drainage Master Plan will ensure the economic well being of the Wichita area by providing a comprehensive plan for addressing drainage issues. Such a plan will define flood prone areas in greater detail, suggest ways to prevent or reduce flooding, provide guidance for floodplain management, and suggest methods to maintain or improve water quality within major channel reaches. This will allow agencies in the Wichita region to identify and adequately address flood prone areas in a comprehensive manner, and ensure that all communities are informed of the situation and contribute to the solutions.
Amount: $ 4 million
Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Description: This project allows KSU to conduct threat and vulnerability analysis of foreign disease agents and food processing and handling systems in a biocontainment laboratory using foreign animal, plant, and zoonotic disease and chemical threat agents. The initiative enhances the U.S. military’s ability to utilize intelligence successfully to counter and respond effectively to the adverse outcomes resulting from natural exposure to or the deliberate use of serious infectious disease and toxin agents affecting humans, animals or plants.
Amount: $400,000
Project Location: Eureka, Kansas
Description: The Greenwood Hotel is located in
Due to the economic
downturn of the oil and cattle industries that occurred within the last three
decades,
Amount; $300,000
Project Location: Kansas River Basin
Description: The Kansas River Basin drains 60,000 square miles in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. There are 18 federal reservoirs in the basin used for multiple purposes. A reconnaissance study will analyze existing data, conduct coordination with potential sponsors/stakeholders and make determination of federal interest.
Amount: $4 million
Location: Wichita State University
Description: This program will allow WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to work with the Air Force to maintain the structural integrity and airworthiness of the KC-135R aircraft. NIAR will perform large section extraction, teardown section disassembly, coatings removal, and nondestructive inspection per the developed C/KC-135 Teardown Analysis Program Protocols. Extending the life of the tanker is critical to the needs of our military’s power projection until a replacement tanker comes online.
Amount:$1,000,000
Project Location: Oskaloosa, Kansas
Description: The project will provide AFIX Tracker technology to law enforcement offices across the region.
Amount: $3 million
Location: Global Aviation Technologies, Wichita, KS
Description: The C-130 Active Noise Cancellation System (ANCS) is a commercial off-the-shelf product that reduces crew fatigue and associated hearing loss by greatly reducing noise levels in the C-130 cockpit. ANCS significantly reduces propeller noise enabling flight crews to sustain performance levels for longer periods, as well as enhancing safety in the high-density air traffic terminal phase, by permitting more effective crew coordination.
Amount: $150,000
Location: Dodge City
Description:
The goal of this project is to establish an oral health coalition to collaborate with existing agencies to set up a restorative health clinic. Funds would be used to purchase equipment including dental x-ray, building renovations, assist with staff recruiting and training in order to meet the dental needs of underserved persons in Ford County.
Amount: $5 million
Location: Iron Tree Research, Lansing, KS
Description: This project will continue development of the Long-Range Hypersonic Interceptor (LRHI), providing the
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Concordia, Kansas
Description: The City of Concordia is located in Northeastern Kansas in Cloud County along Interstate Highway 81. A significant flood hazard with potential for extreme loss of life and property damage exists due to the deteriorated condition of an old, earth-fill embankment built in 1913, on an unnamed tributary on the south side of the city. The embankment on that stream serves as a detention dam during heavy rainfall events, and protects a housing development immediately downstream and also the business district of the city. This embankment breached as a result of heavy rainfall in 1950 and flood waters devastated the downtown district. The embankment was not designed to current engineering standards, and its condition makes the risk of flooding to the housing and business district immediately downstream unacceptable. Removal of the dam is not an option, because the downtown area would still be subject to flash flooding and a severe flood threat would remain. The project will develop a plan to construct a reliable and safe flood protection project in partnership with the city of Concordia. The funds will be used to complete the feasibility study phase and initiate the design phase.
Amount: $14,250,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: Food and agriculture security has been an increasing concern since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It is widely assumed that terrorists have focused on the food supply as a possible target. In addition, tightening world grain stocks have made food security even more important. The diagnostic labs funded under this account, play an important role in detecting foreign plant and animal diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced. These labs have already had success with Asian Soybean Rust.
Funding will most likely be used
for additional training and expansion of the networks. Funding will also be
used to develop and implement education and training programs for agricultural
biosecurity in the Biosecurity Research Institute at
Amount: $3.7 million
Location: Global Ground Support, Olathe, KS
Description: This program would allow the Air Force to procure a total of 10 GL1800 and two ER2875 Truck Mounted Aircraft Deicers. The President’s Budget provides $3 million for 5 deicers, a significant shortfall to the requirement of 173. The USAF is in process of replacing older systems in order to comply with FAA guidelines and to meet the Air Force’s Deicing Pollution Prevention Technology Roadmap. Replacement requirements are based on excessive maintainability and sustainability of older systems as well as increased performance of the newer systems.
Amount: $5 million
Location: Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, Wichita, KS
Description:
This program would allow the Marine Corps to procure 1 of the remaining 5 aircraft required to complete the 11 aircraft UC-12 replacement aircraft program. These aircraft fill a wartime requirement for urgent intra-theater transport of high priority cargo and passengers and is on the Marine Corps’ Unfunded Priority List.
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Neosho River Basin, Kansas and Oklahoma
Description: The study area consists of the 12,500 square-mile Grand/Neosho River Basin in northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas. Many opportunities for flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration have been identified in the area. A feasibility cost share agreement was executed with the Kansas Water Office in September 2006 for the John Redmond Reservoir, Kansas study. The study will focus on the ecosystem degradation that has occurred in John Redmond Reservoir. This degradation is largely a result of sedimentation and nutrient loading. Other local issues such as the log jam and an assessment of dredging as an alternative are included in the multi-year study. Funds would be used to continue the John Redmond Reservoir studies, including analysis of watershed measures to reduce sedimentation, continued data collection and analysis, and evaluation of alternatives and development of a comprehensive watershed management plan.
Amount: $6 million
Location: The Boeing Company, Wichita, KS
Description:
The B-52 mission is dependent on Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite bandwidth for voice and data communications. Existing UHF satellite infrastructure is nearing the end of its service life and will be replaced with the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite array. The B-52 communication system must be modified for compatibility with MUOS satellites to ensure viability of voice and data link capabilities critical to the aircraft’s global strike mission requirements. This project would allow timely re-engineering of the B-52 UHF communications systems to preserve beyond-line-of-sight voice and data link capability and avoid loss of communications due to the legacy system’s end of service life in 2014.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Description: Most of the aging research being conducted presently is focused on metallic structures. In addition to the ongoing research in aging metallic structures, this program will permit WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to partner with the Navy and investigate the effects of aging on composite structures as well as composite/metallic hybrid structures. Lessons learned from this research will provide insight into the aging aspects of other composite aircraft structures and influence the use of advanced materials on new aircraft being proposed for military service as well as maintenance of the existing fleet.
Amount: $1,500,000
Project Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description:
Amount: $5.5 million
Loaction: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Description: The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center’s Performance Enhancement and Food Safety Team develops methods and equipment to determine real-time high threat biohazards in soldiers’ foods. Collaborative work between
Amount: $4 million
Location: Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS
Description:
The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was founded in December 1941 and chartered by Congress in 1946 to provide emergency services, cadet training, and aerospace education. The CAP consists of almost 60,000 volunteers serving in all 50 states. The majority of the fleet consists of older generation aircraft that are expensive to maintain and operate. This program would add to the President’s Budget request of $2.4 million and allows the Civil Air Patrol to better execute their fleet modernization requirements of additional C-172s and C-182s.
Amount: $561,000
Project Location: Upper Black Vermillion Watershed Joint District No. 37, Centralia, Kansas
Description: The funds would be used for financial and technical assistance for design and construction of North Black Vermillion Site No. 201 and for flood control/grade stabilization of the dam. Besides flood control, the Upper Black Vermillion dam will provide grade stabilization, wildlife habitat, water supply and hydrant for local fire districts, sediment control, and water quality benefits. Also, the Upper Black Vermillion Watershed provides sediment control benefits above the Federal Tuttle Creek Reservoir. The appropriated funds would be used for design, environmental assessment and mitigation, construction, quality assurance, and contract administration.
Amount: $450,000
Project Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Description: The MAMTC’s Kansas Job Growth Initiative has
clear and measurable benefits for
81. 5% of
Amount: $114,000
Location: Wichita
Description:
Unlike some other cancers, no one knows how to prevent blood cancer and often there is no cure. This program will deliver a coordinated outreach and intervention initiative to improve the outcomes of those with blood cancer. Funds will be used to implement the three phases: outreach to increase clinical trial enrollment, training of school officials to ease a childhood cancer survivors re-entry to school and patient navigation to ensure no patients fall through the cracks.
Amount: $3.5 million
Location: EaglePicher Technologies LLC, Pittsburg, KS
Description: Recently, EaglePicher developed a new hybrid CFx battery chemistry to address the fundamental weaknesses of traditional CFx batteries. This project will focus on advancing the new hybrid CFx technology and working to make it rechargeable. EaglePicher will partner with the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and
Amount: $8 million
Location: Via Christie Hospital, Wichita Kansas and Nationwide
Description: to approve Military and civilian burn treatment and research
Amount: $1,200,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Description: The goal of food safety research
is to prevent food borne illnesses. Between 6.5
million and 81 million cases of food borne illnesses, including 9,000 deaths,
occur each year in the
Amount: $3 million
Location: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Description:
This program will seek to advance the development and operation of a nanocomposite based methodology addressing lightning strike protection on composite airframe structures in Department of Defense aircraft applications. Unlike their metal counterparts, composite structures do not readily conduct away the extreme electrical currents and electromagnetic forces generated by lightning strikes. This research focus and funding will work in coordination with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright Patterson AFB to advance research into possible commercial applications that may be used in production. Recent advances have shown great promise for the incorporation of this technology into a manufacturing environment.
Amount: $9,734,000
Project Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: This project refurbishes the 50 year old facilities and parking ramp at the Topeka Army Aviation Support Facility in Topeka, Kansas. The project resurfaces existing parking ramps and taxiways and replaces the complete hangar envelope on two hangars, as well as the main hangar doors on all three existing hangars. Current facilities and infrastructure have deteriorated to a point where day-to-day missions may be impacted by flight safety ground operations.
Amount: $600,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: Funding will provide federal support to research and deliver technologies that will:
1) Continue to improve irrigation management;
2) Assist some agricultural producers to transition to profitable dryland cropping systems based on alternative crops and/or new uses for crops, such as bioenergy;
3) Improve rainfall harvesting and water recycling at confined livestock feeding operations;
4) Assist the state to make better informed policy decisions with respect to prolonging the life of the Ogallala aquifer; and
5) Help rural communities plan for and secure sustainable water supplies to meet future demands through improved planning, new technologies, and conservation measures.
This effort is critical to the
economic viability of western
Amount: $90,000
Project Location: Neodesha, Kansas
Description: To initiate and complete a feasibility study to identify measures (structural and non-structural) and formulate alternative plans for flood risk management and environmental restoration.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Kansas State University, Leavenworth, KS
Description: This program was developed jointly between the CGSC and KSU as a faculty development program, in response to the Army’s emphasis on well educated officers. Officers and civilians studying at
Amount: $4,000,000
Project Location: Atchison, Kansas
Description: Environmental Infrastructure. Provide planning design and construction improvements to the City of Atchison’s combined sewer overflow (CSO) system. Atchison continues under enforcement action by EPA for improvement of CSO and water quality releases to the Missouri River.
The City of Atchison is one of three Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) communities in Kansas. Long ago, both storm water and raw sewage was collected and conveyed in the same system of pipelines. Normally, during dry weather, sewage is diverted to the treatment works and is fully treated and discharged. During wet weather, the capacity of the combined system is exceeded, resulting in discharges of raw sewage to the environment. In Atchison’s case, seven of the CSO’s are discharged into White Clay Creek and the Missouri River. The discharge of raw sewage to the environment poses a serious public health risk as portions of White Clay Creek are classified as an accessible urban stream. The Missouri River serves as a drinking water supply for the downstream communities of Leavenworth and Kansas City.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Clay Center, Kansas
Description: The City of
Amount: $591,413
Project Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Description: The LDCBA was created in 2005 through a special task force of community leaders to identify economic development opportunities through leveraging and promoting the University of Kansas (KU) life sciences research and commercialization. The LDCBA’s objectives are to foster the local life sciences industry and grow and diversify the local economy by creating jobs and attracting capital to the area. The Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC) accomplishes these objectives by providing access to modern facilities and equipment to KU spinoff companies, emerging local private sector life sciences and technology companies, and collaborations between KU researchers and large established private sector companies. The funds will be used to complete the construction of a 20,000 square foot facility, which consists of wet and dry lab space, and office space.
Amount:$300,000 in addition to President's request of $1,414,000
Project Location: Wilson Lake near Russell, Kansas
Description: Sediment buildup and the possible contracting of drinking water from Wilson Lake in Kansas drives the need for a reallocation study. The requested amount above the president’s budget will fund this study. Without access to other water resources, Western Kansas communities look to water from Wilson Lake to serve their water needs. This issue is becoming more important as water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer continue to fall in western Kansas. Thus, the sedimentation in the lake is a top priority for numerous western Kansas communities. Completion of this study will allow public water suppliers in the area, including Hays and Russell, to pursue Wilson Reservoir as a water source in their efforts to create a regional water supply system.
Amount: $1,500,000
Project Location: Kansas Livestock Association, Topeka, Kansas
Description: The Animal Waste Phosphorous Reduction System (Phred) will enable Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations regarding the amount of phosphorous applied to fields via waste application. The patent pending system will have the ability to reduce the phosphorous content of the animal waste by 50% or greater. This project will aide in bringing the phosphorous management system fully operational and allow research to proceed with expanding the system to the diary and swine industries and the development of a complete animal waste management system, i.e. a system that addresses other waste constituents in addition to phosphorus.
Amount: $6,000,000
Project Location: University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, Kansas
Description: The University of Kansas
Cancer Center is transforming cancer research and care by linking their innovative
approach to drug discovery, delivery, and development to their nationally-accredited
patient care. The KU Cancer Center’s partnership includes cancer research and
healthcare professionals associated with the University of Kansas Medical
Center and The University of Kansas Hospital in
While Kansas cancer research and care professionals are making a strong contribution to the fight against cancer, the National Cancer Institute reports that Kansas cancer mortality rates are declining at only one-third the national rate (-0.6% versus -1.8%). According to the American Cancer Society, 12,520 Kansans heard the words “you have cancer,” and 5,360 lost their lives in 2008. Cancer costs Kansas $2.08 billion annually in medical expenses and lost productivity. When faced with a cancer diagnosis, Kansans must travel 200 to 700 miles to reach a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. The University of Kansas Cancer Center is uniquely positioned in the region to achieve NCI designation as a result of their drug discovery, delivery, and development research and cancer drug pipeline; cancer prevention and control research; and community-based approach to delivering clinical trials as close to home as possible for patients. In 2006, the University of Kansas Cancer Center set a course for achieving National Cancer Institute designation. Based on their progress from 2006 to 2008, the National Cancer Institute scheduled the application date for September 25, 2011.
Since
2006, the University of Kansas Cancer Center has succeeded in rallying state
and regional communities in the fight against cancer. Their many accomplishments
include: attracting approximately $120 million in state and regional support;
launching the Midwest Cancer Alliance (a regional clinical trials network with
10 hospital partners); being named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s
academic drug discovery, delivery, and development partner; initiating the
Phase I Nanotax® clinical trial (a drug developed at the University of Kansas);
doubling the number of patients enrolled in cancer clinical trials; and screening
more than 4,200 Kansans for cancer. To achieve the goal of National Cancer
Institute designation, the University of Kansas Cancer Center must attract 19
new basic, translational, and clinical cancer researchers by 2011. These
scholar recruits will only come to the University of Kansas Cancer Center if
state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment are available on the
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Girard, Kansas
Description: The City of Girard’s Water Storage and Distribution Rehab Project has clear and measurable benefits. The system in use was built in the early 1920’s and over time has far outlived its life expectancy. Lack of repairs and maintenance over the years has now left the system beyond repair. The City’s water storage unit needs a total replacement and a significant upgrade of their distribution system is also required to meet necessary community demands. Existing storage facilities are in a state of disrepair, including two water towers carrying over 150,000 gallons of water. The distribution system operates at a pressure of 40 psi, which is 20psi below standard, thus hurting firefighting efforts and general quality of life. Supply of water to the distribution system relies on an antiquated water treatment plant which is located eight miles from town. Leakage in the system leads to unaccounted for water, and lost water rose from 15.4% in 2006 to 20% in 2009. Funds would be used to remove the one million gallon ground storage tank, the 86,000 elevated storage tank, and the 75,000 gallon elevated storage tank. They would be replaced with two new 250,000 gallon elevated storage tanks, with an elevation of 1,135 feet above sea level, thus increase psi levels to 58 and 78. A chlorination building would be built and would be used to re-chlorinate water as it gets to town to maintain water quality. A booster pump station would be constructed to effectively fill the west elevated storage tank during future max day and peak day demand scenarios. A pad-mounted electric generator (at the existing water treatment plant) would be installed that could operate one well pump and one water treatment supply pump during power outages.
Amount: $300,000
Project Location: Manhattan, Kansas
Description: Feasibility Study. The City of Manhattan, Kansas, and an unincorporated area of Pottawatomie County are protected from recurring floods of the Kansas and Little Blue Rivers by a levee project on three sides. The City of Manhattan is experiencing significant growth of commercial industry in the protected area of the levee because of increased economic activity and the return of the entire 1st Infantry Division to the nearby Fort Riley installation. The existing Manhattan levee unit includes 29,000 feet of levee.
Levee certification is a major concern. The 1993 flood damaged several hundred residences in the Manhattan area. A reconnaissance study completed in 2005 indicated the system may not provide the design level of protection. Economic development behind the levees continues and places additional infrastructure at risk. In addition, the area protected by the levee system includes nearly 2000 homes and more than 500 businesses and public facilities, including a regional shopping mall, the city’s historic and core downtown business districts, a major downtown redevelopment project, and numerous other commercial and industrial facilities estimated at over $600 million in investment value. Funds will be used to progress the feasibility study, which will be critical to the ability of the City to certify their levee and maintain economic viability.
Amount: $1,300,000
Project Location: Manhattan, Kansas and Texas
Description: This initiative will produce
accurate estimates of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) emissions
from open-lot cattle feedlots and dairies; cost-effective abatement measures;
process-based models; and science-based emission factors for dust, odors, and
related gases. This will improve sustainability of cattle and dairy operations
as vital economic sectors of rural communities in the
Effective and economical abatement measures must be developed for producers. At the same time, federal and state policies must be science-based, economical, and effective to ensure regional sustainability.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Leading Technology Composites, Wichita, KS
Description: This program develops vehicle armor solutions for the Army to ultimately reduce the weight and increase the soldier’s protection level without severely compromising vehicle payload and maneuverability, while defeating current battlefield threats.
Amount: $3 million
Location: NanoScale Corporation, Manhattan, KS
Description: The transport of contaminated human remains is important in both combat and humanitarian military actions. However, the current technology has remained largely unchanged for decades. Handlers of contaminated and potentially contaminated human remains face significant biological and chemical threats. During a recent US Army sponsored research program, NanoScale and its partner designed and manufactured an Enhanced Contaminated Human Remains Pouch (ECHRP), which decontaminates itself, allowing not only for safe transport, but the ability to handles remains once a destination is reached. This phase of the program will take the ECHRP to a field approved item.
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: To develop strategies to identify and mitigate food-borne pathogens such as E. coli O157 and Salmonella, to further our knowledge about antibiotic resistance and food-borne diseases, and to identify and trace food-borne and zoonotic diseases and thereby prevent them from entering the American meat supply.
Amount: $739,600
Project Location: Holton, Kansas
Description: The funds would be used for financial and technical assistance for design and construction of Elk Creek Site No. 11 and for flood control/grade stabilization of the dam. Besides flood control, the Elk Creek Watershed dam will provide grade stabilization, wildlife habitat, water supply and hydrant for local fire districts, sediment control, and water quality benefits. The appropriated funds would be used for design, environmental assessment and mitigation, construction, quality assurance, and contract administration.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Joint Project in Kansas and Missouri Fairfax Drainage District of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Description: The existing Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas Levee Project consists of seven levee units including 60 miles of levees and floodwalls along both banks of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. The levee system protects about 32 square miles of urban industrial, commercial, and residential areas.
Funds would be utilized for construction of underseepage corrections to the North Kansas City levee system, design of the reinforcement required for the Fairfax BPU Unit floodwall, and design of the Kaw Valley District’s Jersey Creek sheet pile wall.
The entire system of seven levee units withstood the Flood of 1993, but some elements of the system were seriously challenged as the flood crest reached near overtopping levels for at least one location. This flood experience raised a concern that the levees may provide less than the level of protection for which they were designed. Following the Flood of 1993 both KCK and KCMO wrote letters to the Kansas City District Corps of Engineers expressing concern for the adequacy of parts of the flood damage reduction system.
Amount: $400,000
Project Location: Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Description: Johnson County Community College (JCCC) is requesting funding to turn its campus parking areas into an asset-rich environment by transforming a portion of its parking capacity into a teaching and learning facility. The project consists of installing 31 elevated solar panel canopies in its parking lots, along with 3 plug-in electric stations for plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These solar panel canopies are compromised of photovoltaic cells that make use of renewable energy from the sun. They are a clean and environmentally sound means of collecting solar energy. The JCCC solar panel canopies will serve as a demonstration project for the growing, high-demand solar energy field; a field that will employ an increasing number of Kansas residents in the future. Additionally, the canopies will serve as sun shields for automobiles as students will be able to park underneath.
Amount: $1,250,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: Funding will be used for additional research and equipment.
The Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center (WGGRC) is a pioneering center without walls serving the world’s wheat research community to ensure the free availability of germ plasm, genetic and genomic resources, and knowledge for sustainable and profitable wheat crop production.
This research has been and will continue to be essential to developing further disease resistance and to increasing yields – both of which are essential as global wheat stocks continue to tighten.
Amount: $215,000
Location: Dodge City
Description:
Mobility is changing the way schools operate. USD 443 feels that implementing an enterprise-class, secure wireless infrastructure into the school district's current robust computing environment is the fastest, most secure method available for putting new technology directly into the classroom for students and teachers. Funds would be used to create more WLANs in the school district, since wireless technologies makes expansion virtually limitless. The increasing need for anytime connectivity is creating new challenges for today's schools, which must respond to the growing demand for WLANs in an era of tight budgets and reduced resources.
Amount: $100,000
Project Location: Osawatomie, Kansas
Description: A significant flood hazard with a high potential for loss of life and property damage exists in Osawatomie, KS on the confluence of the Marais de Cygnes River and Pottawatomie Creek. The levee unit is comprised of 4.8 miles of levee, as well as modified channel, drainage, and closure structures. Severe flooding in 2007 overtopped the levee system causing million of dollars in damages in a large area of the City. There is reason to believe that the levee may not provide the authorized level of protection and there is a need for ACOE to investigate for modification. The project will fund a reconnaissance investigation to determine if there is a problem and how to best modify the levee system in partnership with the City of Osawatomie.
Amount:$1,500,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used for additional research and development purposes that will help to expand and advance the aviation industry in the United States. This research is increasingly important as composites take on a greater role in aircraft construction.
Amount: $1,250,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: These funds will support the continued effort to enhance the overall
productivity and value of
Amount: $1,731,500
Project Location: Lincolnville, Kansas
Description: The funds would be used for financial and technical assistance for design and construction of Middle Creek Site No. 11 and for flood control/grade stabilization of the dam. Besides flood control, the Middle Creek Watershed dam will provide grade stabilization, wildlife habitat, water supply and hydrant for local fire districts, sediment control, and water quality benefits. The appropriated funds would be used for design, environmental assessment and mitigation, construction, quality assurance, and contract administration.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Aeroflex, Wichita, KS
Description:
This program combines the features of a bench top radio test set into a lightweight (8.5 pounds), rugged, portable and rechargeable platform. This hand held device allows technicians to perform maintenance checks of radio systems and perform diagnostics or troubleshooting of faulty systems at Field Level. With the additional capability to perform quick testing of antennas and cables, this test set provides the most complete in-vehicle test solution available. As a result, it reduces the number of radios incorrectly removed from vehicles. Currently, the Marine Corps own about 1,100 units and need roughly 1,500 for deployment
Amount: $990,000
Project Location: Great Bend, Kansas
Description: The City of
Amount: $200,000
Project Location: Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, MO
Description: Brush Creek has had several severe flooding events, including 1998, which resulted in seven fatalities and millions of dollars in damages. The feasibility study will examine a full range of structural and nonstructural measures to reduce recurring flood damages in the Brush Creek Basin. Increasing urbanization is the significant threat to the level of flood protection, natural resources, and water quality in the basin. A comprehensive, bi-state watershed study is needed to bring agencies and communities together in the common goal of flood protection, resource conservation, and sustainable economic development.
Amount: $800,000
Project Location: Lawrence, Kansas
Description: The
project would include a lift/pump station and piping to discharge stormwater
from North Lawrence to the
Amount: $100,000
Projec Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: FEMA has recently completed a flood map revision study and they are scheduled to finalize the flood map revisions in 2010. Once finalized, it is anticipated that 3,184 parcels of property in Topeka/Shawnee County will be added to the 100 year flood plain and will be required to purchase flood insurance. The majority of the property is located adjacent to the Shunganunga Creek and South Shunganunga Creek drainage basins. Federal funds would be used to help begin mitigation of future flooding along the Shunganunga Creek and South Shunganunga Creek drainage basins through infrastructure improvements to help reduce the possibility of a flood event such as was experienced in Topeka in May 2007. The City of Topeka has developed a two prong approach to best evaluate the way forward to prevent future flooding. The first part of the study has identified the watersheds runoff rates that contribute to and are part of the creek and drainage basins. The second phase, which the requested funds would be utilized for, would focus on identifying the most efficient ways to address the flood risks.
Amount: $750,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: According to the American Wind Energy Association, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota are all in the top 10 of US states for wind potential capacity. Additionally all of these states are on the westernmost edge of the US Eastern Interconnection. However, the observability of the grid in these areas is low as there are only nine phasor measurement units installed in all these states with six of the nine within Oklahoma. With the increase in wind capacity and new transmission lines being built, it will be even more important to have PMUs within the system to meter the current status to help maintain the reliability and stability of the power system. Funds would be used to develop system level studies for design, analysis and operation of the electric power system in the Midwest considering additional penetration of wind energy. These studies would look at the system level analysis of how various wind energy plants would interact with each other and the rest of act components that drive the power grid. Additionally investigations would identify the optimal locations for PMUs to allow for maximum observability of the system. This enables analysis and warning when the system is at risk, which could allow remedial actions to help prevent cascading outages.
Amount: $100,000
Project Location: Upper Arkansas River of Western Kansas
Description: Water availability in western Kansas is a significant issue for local water supplies, agriculture production, and economic development. For its planning purposes, the state of Kansas needs the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an ecosystem restoration study related to water issues along the Arkansas River from the Kansas/Colorado border to Great Bend, Kansas (approximately 200 miles). The study is needed to determine opportunities for stream rehabilitation that would improve stream flow conveyance, minimize river water quality impacts related to groundwater reductions, obstructions and water consumption by salt cedar and other invasive species, and reduce flood problems.
Amount: $110,000
Project Location: Iola, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used to establish a program for 24 to 28 at-risk Pre-K students.
Amount: $2 million
Location:
Description:
This program is aimed at deploying advanced aircraft manufacturing of large and cost-effective panel and load structures through the deployment of Friction Stir Welding and Laser Peening. The project will allow Wichita State University and Curtiss-Wright to work together to document the effectiveness of laser peening in reducing fatigue crack growth rates of Friction Stir Welds in aerospace alloys. The initiative will also develop standards for applying laser peening in metal airframe structures, and analyze potential cost and production benefits derived from laser peening technology. The laser peening technology has greatly improved the fatigue resistance of the engines blades of hundreds of military and commercial aircraft.
Amount: $650,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used for research and development purposes along with providing training both on-site and through distance learning throughout the state to ensure agencies learn about crimes, new practices, emerging issues, and techniques to help keep their communities safe.
Amount: $350,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: The proposed project would reduce or eliminate flooding overflows from Dry Creek into the Calfskin Creek in west Wichita that would result in the protection of 25 structures in the 10-year flood; 72 structures in the 50-year flood; 90 structures in the 100-year flood; and 140 structures in the 500-year flood. The City of Wichita has regulated new development in the Calfskin Creek basin, based on 1986 and the current 2007 FEMA flood maps. The City discovered inaccuracies in the 1986 maps because of the significant over flows from Dry Creek into the Calfskin Creek during the 1998 “Halloween Flood” in west Wichita. In September 2008, another flood event again caused major damage to over a hundred homes within the Calfskin Creek basin. The funding would be used to complete the final engineering design and necessary permitting, along with beginning construction of a large regional detention facility to reduce flood elevations to the levels that were listed on the 1986 FEMA flood insurance rate study.
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: KCBPU presently owns and operates a pilot Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system that consists of approximately 4,000 electric and 1,500 water smart meters. The Utility began testing AMI technology in 2005. The pilot system was installed to collect load profile data to be used in a cost-of-service study. KCBPU also intended to use the AMI data to study the benefits of demand response programs designed to reduce energy demand and curve greenhouse gases. The pilot AMI system collects daily reads for residential, commercial, and industrial customers’ accounts and represents a key investment in Smart Grid technologies. They would like to expand the pilot AMI system to cover all 70,000 accounts, but it lacks the funding needed to finance the entire program. The funds would be used to pay for a wireless communications network that will transport meter data commands to and from customers in their community. Additionally, funding would help to address the interoperability issues needed to ensure back office AMI system integration. KCBPU is also seeking to use the communications system to introduce distribution automation programs (such as capacitor controls, device monitoring, mobile applications, and intelligent switching) to reduce operating costs and improve system performance.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Lawrence
Description: To achieve the goal of National Cancer Institute designation, the University of Kansas Cancer Center must attract 19 new basic, translational, and clinical cancer researchers by 2011. These scholar recruits will only come to the University of Kansas Cancer Center if state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment are available on the Medical Center campus in Kansas City and the Drug Discovery campus in Lawrence. The funds will go towards cancer research equipment in order to expand the KC Cancer Center and proceed towards mission of the center becoming a National Cancer Institute designee.
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: The Topeka levee system includes more than 40 miles of levees protecting more than $1 billion in residential, commercial, industrial, public utilities, and transportation investments. The levee system does not provide the authorized level of protection to the City. The feasibility study, completed in December 2008, recommends improvements to the levee system in a comprehensive and cost-effective project to restore an acceptable level of reliability to the levee system and increased flood protection for the City. The funds will be used to advance the design phase.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington, Kansas
Description: Currently there is 2.5 mile long log jam located in the Neosho River at the upper end of John Redmond Reservoir in Coffey County, KS. The log jam began in the 1970’s and has progressively worsened.
Amount: $2 million
Location: Kaman Aerostructures, Wichita, KS
Description: This project will replace the main rotor blade on the A/MH-6 Little Bird Helicopter with Composite Small Main Rotor Blades. This will make the A/MH-6 more survivable in hostile environments, expand the aircraft’s flight envelope and reduce cost required to support the legacy blade, overall affording combat operators greater mission success.
Amount: $2 million
Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Description: This program will allow KU to work with the Army Research Office and
Amount: $200,000
Project Location: Iola, Kansas
Description: The City of Iola was affected by a devastating flood on June 29, 2007 and was swamped with as high as 12 feet of water, covering 30 percent to 40 percent of the city. The flood destroyed a large portion of the city, including the recreation building and local parks while damaging over 400 homes. Thanks to the efforts of local, state, and federal governments, these neighborhoods, which were once 12 feet under water, have been rebuilt or relocated. The levee that protects three sides of Riverside Park (the primary area affected by the flood) held superbly. The fourth side, however, which is only protected by a former railroad embankment, was the source of the breach. During the recertification of the area protected by the levee, FEMA informed the City that they must now include this area within the flood plain on FEMA maps. This decision has had major implications for the vitality of the City of Iola and its citizens, affecting City property, and a major employer. In order to prevent the area from being in the flood plain, the fourth side of the area needs to be protected by a levee, connecting to the existing levee.
The Army Corps of Engineer’s study will ideally generate a proposal for plans to construct a levee system which will provide flood protection of public buildings, private homes, recreation parks, and the city’s wastewater system. The city of Iola hopes that with the results of the study, solutions will be executed to prevent future floods and allow the city to flourish.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Tonganoxie, Kansas
Description: The City of
Amount: $100,000
Project Location: Lower Arkansas River of Southwest Kansas
Description: Water availability in western Kansas is a significant issue for local water supplies, agriculture production, and economic development. For its planning purposes, the state of Kansas needs the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an ecosystem restoration and flood damage reduction study along the Arkansas River between Great Bend, Kansas, and the Kansas-Oklahoma state line. The Arkansas River Basin experiences widespread flooding and ecosystem degradation along the riparian corridor.
Amount: $12,000,000
Project Location: Turkey Creek Basin, Kansas and Missouri
Description: Turkey Creek drains a 23-mile urbanized basin flowing through Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The creek dumps into the Kansas River through a 1,400 foot tunnel. The basin extends into heavily-developed commercial areas of Kansas City, Missouri. Severe and frequent flooding is experienced along the Southwest Blvd area and in the Central Industrial District (CID) in KCK and KCMO. A dual flood threat exists which consists of Turkey Creek over bank flow from the upper basin, and also heavy runoff from hillsides above Southwest Blvd. When flooding exceeds the 10-year event, CID in KCMO experiences damaging floods. Heavily damaging and life threatening floods were experienced in 1977, 1993, and 1998. The flood damage reduction project consists of approximately two miles of urban channel modification to protect from flooding up to the 100-year event and four large diversion pipelines to intercept flooding from sources above Southwest Blvd within the KC-metro area. Funding would provide for continued work on new Railroad bridges, channel improvements, design on stormwater interceptors, a levee to provide flood risk management in the area, and design work on the final channel modifications. Periodic flooding within the lower two miles of Turkey Creek Basin impacts a significant industrial and commercial corridor along SW Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Dodge City, Kansas
Description: To fund a water reclamation facility, wastewater conveyance system facilities, and water reuse distribution system to meet both immediate wastewater treatment needs and future needs for the community. The proposed wastewater reclamation facility will be designed to treat flow from areas of town located north of a ridge in the northern portion of the city, including those areas currently being pumped into the existing conveyance system and new development that occurs within the north service area. Flow from the southern portion of the city will continue to be treated at the existing wastewater facility. Infrastructure of this type is a critical element of continued economic development. Dodge City and its residents will benefit for many years with the construction of this water reclamation facility and the associated conveyance; providing capacity for increased residential, commercial, and industrial growth.
Amount: $3.5 million
Location: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Description: Unlike structures that use metallic materials in the manufacturing process, the material properties of a composite are manufactured into the structure as part of the fabrication process. Therefore, it is essential to ensure that critical parameters pertaining to composite materials and their production processes are identified to facilitate adherence to standards in the final engineered part. Presently, each original equipment manufacturer is responsible for this assurance, creating “customized”, nonstandard procedures for quality and safety assurance. This program will provide a breakthrough in technology integration and achieve significant cost and cycle-time reductions in new material insertion through (a) data-sharing among multiple users, (b) statistical continuity from one length-scale to another and (c) reduced testing via increased capability and use of numerical/analytical simulation tools. Anticipated benefits include reductions in nonrecurring and recurring program qualification costs and introduction of multiple sources of new advanced material forms.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: The NCRP is a nationally
coordinated and administered research program through CSREES’ Supplemental and
Alternative Crops account which is authorized to be funded under Title 7 U.S.C.
3319d. The NCRP is designed to meet the sustainable and emerging needs of the
canola industry in the
The NCRP has greatly contributed to the stable canola
acreage that has been established in the Northern Plains, with 1 to 1.5 million
acres being planted there annually this decade. Other regions – the Southern
Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in particular as well as the Mid-South,
Southeast, and
Amount: $1.1 million
Location: Hays
Description:
Fort Hays State University's Department of Informatics will use funds to purchase high definition video creation, editing, and distribution tools to create a unique high definition integration learning environment. It will integrate this environment into its award winning Media Studies program and will teach students to use high definition video tools and techniques for media, business, healthcare, law enforcement, education, and government. University students will build on Fort Hays State University's national lead in media convergence.
Amount: $600,000
Project Location: Joint Project between Kansas and Missouri
Description: The Subcommittee must provide additional study funding for the Kansas City District office to continue studying why the Missouri River is downcutting its riverbed along its Kansas City reach. There is concern in Kansas and Missouri that if the downcutting continues, all water intakes for drinking water and power plant cooling will break or become inoperative. At that point, the Kansas City area will have a serious water supply issue and higher electricity rates if local plants shut down with no cooling water. The downcutting is not limited to just the Missouri River. It is also spreading up the Kansas River from its confluence with the Missouri River and impacting those intakes.
Funding is requested to investigate Missouri River bed degradation within Missouri from above Kansas City through Jefferson City. The most severe degradation occurs within the Kansas City Reach of the Missouri River from approximately River mile 340 to 400. The Missouri River is degrading in this reach and other areas within the river, lowering the bed and water surface elevations in a progressive trend. This is evidenced by years of gage data, and recently increasing problems at water utility intakes and drainage structures. Existing Corps of Engineers levee and bank stabilization projects, utility water intakes, bridges, commercial dredging operations and other infrastructure and services are threatened by this continued degradation. This investigation will consolidate and evaluate long term gage data and information on sedimentation, erosion, and channelization from prior reports. A system model will be developed to assess and determine the predominant causes of this trend. The groundwater studies will be initiated. Additionally, the investigation will recommend alternative solutions that are economically justified and environmentally acceptable.
The Kansas City region cannot afford to lose drinking water intakes in the Missouri and Kansas rivers. Alluvial wells cannot meet the greater community water demands. In 2005, the Kansas City Star printed an editorial in support of the study, highlighting the serious nature of losing the Missouri River intakes.
Amount: $5 million
Location:
Description:
This request continues and expands the Expeditionary Capabilities Consortium (ECC) at KSU, to meet the top Science and Technology needs of the U.S. Marine Corps Program Executive Office (PEO) Land Systems. The ECC, currently under operation as the Urban Operations Laboratory (UOL) and the Expeditionary Capabilities Laboratory (ECL), will provide expanded capabilities for research, development, and evaluation of key technological enhancements in support of USMC efforts to bridge identified capability gaps and develop expeditionary capabilities required for the modernization of Marine forces.
Amount: $33.5 million
Project Location: Nationwide
Description: Signed letter of support for a $9 million increase over the President's budget request. To assist small businesses in navigating the Defense procurement process and to help generate new suppliers for the Defense Department.
Amount: $250,000
Project Location: Johnson and Wyandotte Counties, Kansas
Description: The feasibility study will evaluate the structural and nonstructural measures to address the flood threat. Turkey Creek habitat is significantly degraded and water quality is a serious problem. The study will evaluate stream and wetland habitat restoration measures that will also help reduce flood peaks and contribute to bank stability and water quality improvement.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used to create a new system to support over 175 mobile units at 5 separate geographical locations.
Amount: $100,000
Project Location: Salina, Kansas
Description: A significant flood hazard with a high potential for loss of life and property damage exists in Salina, KS on the confluence of the Smoky Hill River with Mulberry and Dry Creeks, just upstream from where the Smoky Hill combines with the Saline River. The levee unit is comprised of 17.1 miles of levee, as well as modified channels, 23 drainage structures, and closure structures. Severe flooding in 2007 caused severe bank erosion damage. Observations after the flood event indicate that the existing levee and channel project may have a systemic problem of channel degradation. If left unchecked, channel degradation could destabilize the levee and cause failure during a flood event. Funding would be for a reconnaissance study to determine the nature and extent of the problems and modification of the levee system.
Amount: $5 million
Location: Hawker Beechcraft, Wichita, KS
Description:
The requested increase in funding, when combined with industry’s investment in building the first two AT-6B Testbed/Demonstrator Aircraft, will support demonstration and certification of enhanced performance, advanced weapons, advanced sensors, and austere field operating capabilities. These initiatives build on previous ANG demonstration efforts that includes Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems, GPS-guided smart weapons, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and other advanced capabilities relevant to potential ANG missions.
Amount: $400,000
Project Location: Missouri River near St. Joseph, Missouri and surrounding tributaries including Doniphan County, Kansas
Description: Unit R 460-471 of the levee system failed in the flood of 1993. Subsequent hydraulic analyses indicated that it would no long provide protection from the 1 percent (100 year) flood. Decertification of the R 460-471 unit resulted in a rezoning process whereby the area behind the levee will undergo increasingly severe restrictions. The recommended plan will raise the R 460-471 an average of almost 3 feet to pass the 100-year flood with 90 percent reliability, and raise low areas of L-435 as needed to accommodate the hydraulic effects of raising R 460-471. Funds will be used to continue the design analyses and calculations leading to the development of levee raise plans and specifications for construction.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Description: KSU requests $1.0 million for the NABC for Phase IV efforts to protect
Funds will be used for continued research, upgrades to security equipment and salaries.
Amount: $922,050
Project Location: Salina, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used to create a center building upon the cluster of bulk solid industries in the region.
Amount: $2.5 million
Location: Bradken Atchison Steel Castings and Machining, Atchison, KS
Description: Superior Weapons Systems Through Castings allows the Army to procure higher performance, lighter weight parts for both legacy and new weapons systems by providing rapid, cost-effective solutions in the procurement of high-quality critical castings used in legacy systems in ongoing operations worldwide. This program will develop materials more suitable for service conditions; enhance the processes and geometries of certain critical parts; improve the casting industry’s predictive tools; and redesign existing components to capture the advantages of castings. As a result, this program will ensure more rapid availability of parts for assembling prototypes, as well as spare and replacement parts for fielded units.
Amount: $300,000
Project Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: Funding will be used to fulfill the parameters of the Cooperative Agreement between the Brown v. Board Foundation and the National Park Service. Funding will support the partnership which develops plans, training modalities, educational exhibits and activities, as well as interpretive programming to meet the NPS mandate establishing cooperative relationships to enhance park operations for the education and heritage of the American people.
Amount: $600,000
Location: Chanute
Description: Neosho County Community College and the Center for Sustainable Energy proposes to become the educational institution in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri engaged in the hands-on training, and education of energy management technicians, and sustainable energy system installers. Students in the Center will learn to analyze energy production and consumption, recommend appropriate improvements to increase efficiencies, learn construction methods utilizing sustainable energy in every aspect of residential and commercial construction, and specialize in energy system installation. As America moves to become ever more energy independent, residential and commercial contractors are seeking men and women who understand the evolving field and industry of sustainable energy management, energy conservation, and its application to the "green" industry.
Amount: $90,000
Project Location: Sedgwick, Kansas and Harvey County, Kansas
Description: The City of Sedgwick lies adjacent to the confluence of the Little Arkansas River and its tributaries, Emma and Sand Creeks. Funds would be used to initiate and complete a feasibility study to identify measures (structural and non-structural) and formulate alternative plans for flood risk management and environmental restoration.
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: The City of
Amount: $318,000
Location: Overland Park
Description:
One of the greatest challenges facing health care in Kansas is the serious lack of primary health care providers living in rural areas. This problem will only worsen in the next three to ten years as a generation of the state's current chiropractic physicians reach retirement age. To meet the needs of rural Kansans and provide access to a primary care chiropractic physician, Cleveland Chiropractic College in partnership with The Kansas Chiropractic Association seek to establish a statewide effort to educate, recruit, train and place graduating chiropractors into practice in underserved rural counties in Kansas.
Amount: $5 million
Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Description:
This effort combines KU’s superconducting, materials, experimental, and modeling/simulation expertise with Northrop Grumman’s systems, materials and superconducting technology expertise. The ability to solve certain DOD intelligence problems which are currently intractable will dramatically enhance DOD’s effectiveness against certain threats in the cyber arena. This new approach to addressing these problems will begin the development of Quantum Mechanical device technology that will lead to the next generation of microelectronics. Coupling this with a unique architecture promises to provide a capability to solve certain intelligence problems in minutes that would take an ordinary computer thousands of years.
Amount: $300,000
Project Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: The condition of the Arkansas River, and its supporting
watershed, has long been a priority for the City of
Amount: $200,000
Project Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Funds will be used to support and design a solution to separate youth from adults in the justice system.
Amount: $600,000
Location: Girard
Description:
Girard Medical Center continues to move aggressively toward improving and expanding safe patient care that is less costly to the patient. In order to maximize the success of patient treatment and ensure the quality of their services, GMC needs to modernize their radiology department. Funds would be used to update radiology equipment in order to provide the most effective and technologically advanced treatment for the patients and families of Crawford County and surrounding areas.
Amount: $500,000
Project Location: Joint project in Kansas and Missouri
Description: The existing Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas Levee Project consists of seven levee units including 60 miles of levees and floodwalls along both banks of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. The levee system protects about 32 square miles of urban industrial, commercial, and residential areas.
Funds would be utilized for feasibility, design, and evaluation of the Metropolitan flood protection system on the Missouri and Kansas Rivers in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The feasibility study on Phase I was completed in 2006 and funds are needed for engineering design. The feasibility study on the remaining levee units (Phase II) continues through 2012. Funds will be used to complete economic updates, complete the real estate plan, NEPA compliance, continuing to progress the Feasibility Study and prepare for the independent peer review process for levee raise and major improvements to the Central Industrial District and Armourdale levee units.
The entire system of seven levee units withstood the Flood of 1993, but some elements of the system were seriously challenged as the flood crest reached near overtopping levels for at least one location. This flood experience raised a concern that the levees may provide less than the level of protection for which they were designed. Following the Flood of 1993 both KCK and KCMO wrote letters to the Kansas City District Corps of Engineers expressing concern for the adequacy of parts of the flood damage reduction system, these concerns have initiated the current study.
Amount: $3.6 million
Description:
This program allows
Amount: $3 million
Location: Unviersity of Kansas, Lawrence and in Leavenworth
Description: This program allows KU’s Office of Professional Military Graduate Education to conduct programs with the Combined Arms Command and Command and General Staff College at