This is similar to the work efforts of the river itself in providing water for irrigation, industry, towns, and cities, and its bed load is used for development of those towns and cities and the infrastructure connecting them. The population is here because the river is here. Several of those reservoirs are on major tributaries to rivers and streams of the Kansas River. Factors included in their selection and evaluation are access, water attraction, vegetative cover, soils, land use, slope, user availability, and costs to acquire and develop the land. Only one of the 15 sites was found to be unsuitable, while 12 sites rated good, and two rated fair on over-all site qualities.
Slow flow permits appreciation of river's outstanding attributes.
The report further presents general plans for the necessary development to be accomplished for that inclusion. During the latter stages of the 1996 Kansas legislative session, the Kansas Legislature determined that a multiagency study be made of the development of recreational opportunities along the Kansas River. With this multiagency study underway at the time of drafting of this study by the Kansas Geological Survey, no additional discussion will be made in this report of the recreational uses of the Kansas River.