Water Resources Solutions has provided engineering services to the Kansas Division of Conservation and Natural Resources Conservation Service in association with Wildhorse Riverworks, Inc. for more 50 stream bank stabilization projects on the Smoky Hill River, Little Blue, Big Blue, Delaware, Neosho and Kansas Rivers in Kansas since 2010.  These projects involve severely eroding stream banks that are adversely affecting adjacent agricultural property.

Many of the stream bank stabilization projects were funded under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).

The projects will include the completion of construction plans that will include construction specifications and operation and maintenance plans.  In addition, assistance was provided to the EQIP participant to secure all necessary permits, including those from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources; and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).  The project team developed a KDHE Stormwater Pollution Protection Plan.  This plan would minimize the possibility of adverse actions resulting from a complaint during the construction period.

These projects were designed in accordance with the current applicable NRCS design standards and specifications

Project hydraulics have been completed using both HEC-RAS for steady flow analyses and River FLO-2D for two-dimensional, unsteady-flow analyses.
Water Resources Solutions has a long track record of water-resources project experience in rural watersheds throughout Kansas. Its water resources engineers have conducted hundreds of water-related engineering study or design projects in most of the watersheds of Kansas, most of which involve rural stream and wetland study and design to conserve soil and water resources and protect agricultural productive use. Those projects include: