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The Project area encompasses the Brush Creek watershed from its headwaters in Kansas to its mouth at the Blue River in Missouri. The basin drains 29 square miles within 2 states, 3 counties, and 13 cities, and includes two major sub-basins: Rock Creek in Kansas and Town Fork Creek in Missouri.
This corridor is a unifying streamway-greenway across the eastern and western parts of Kansas City, and although there are ongoing flood-mitigation projects along Brush Creek in both Kansas and Missouri there remain several issues to be investigated including: non-point source water quality, ecosystem restoration, connections to recreational amenities, and other allied purposes.
Twenty people lost their lives in the Brush Creek floods of 1977 and 1998. Brush Creek is known as the “Cultural Corridor” in Kansas City and serves as a highly traveled business, residential and recreational corridor.
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The City of Kansas City, Missouri and Johnson County, Kansas have contributed significant local resources toward the completion of the flood mitigation and related stream work along Brush Creek.
Funding is requested to continue the collaborative effort of developing a Watershed Management Plan that coordinates planning and project efforts between a large number of local government jurisdictions in both Kansas and Missouri.
It is important that adequate funding be provided to collect the relevant data, coordinate among the many stakeholders, and establish cost sharing relationships needed to move forward with an integrated watershed based approach to manage both water quality and water quantity along Brush Creek.
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