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Show ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT (KANSAS-OKLAHOMA) 13 F. The term "conservation storage capacity" means that portion of the active storage capacity of reservoirs, including multipurpose res- ervoirs, with a conservation storage capacity in excess of 100 acre-feet, available for the storage of water for subsequent use, but it excludes any portion of the storage capacity allocated to flood and sediment control and inactive storage capacity allocated to other uses; G. The term "new conservation storage capacity" means conserva- tion storage capacity for which construction is initiated after July 1, 1963, and storage capacity not presently allocated for conservation storage which is converted to conservation storage capacity after July 1, 1963, in excess of the quantities of declared conservation storage capacity as set forth in the storage table attached to and made a part of the minutes of the twenty-fourth meeting of the compact committee dated September 1,1964, and as filed and identified to this compact in the offices of the secretaries of state of the respective states; H. The term "pollution" means contamination or other alterations of the physical, chemical, biological or radiological properties of water or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, or solid substances into any waters which creates or is likely to result in a nuisance, or which ren- ders or is likely to render the waters into which it is discharged harm- ful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare or which is harmful, detrimental or injurious to beneficial uses of the water. ARTICLE HI The physical and other conditions peculiar to the Arkansas Kiver basin constitute the basis for this compact, and neither of the states hereby, nor the congress of the United States by its consent hereto, concedes that this compact establishes any general principle with respect to any other interstate stream. article rv A. For the purpose of apportionment of water between the two states, the Arkansas river basin is hereby divided into major topo- graphic subbasins as follows: (1) The Grand-Neosho river subbasin; (2) the Verdigris river subbasin; (3) the Salt Fork river subbasin; (4) the Cimarron river subbasin; and (5) the mainstem Arkansas river subbasin which shall consist of the Arkansas river basin, except- ing the Grand-Neosho river, Verdigris river, Salt Fork river, and Cimarron river subbasins. B. The two states recognize that portions of other states not signatory to this compact lie within the drainage area of the Arkansas river basin as herein defined. The water apportionments provided for in this compact are not intended to affect nor do they affect the rights of such other states in and to the use of waters of the basin. ARTICLE V The state of Kansas shall have free and unrestricted use of the waters of the Arkansas river basin within Kansas subject to the provisions of this compact and to the limitations set forth below: A. New conservation storage capacity in the Grand-Neosho river |