2012 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 82a WATERS AND WATERCOURSES
Article 5 INTERSTATE COMPACTS AND AGREEMENTS
Section 82a-527a True and permanent boundary line; affirmation and ratification of survey; legal description.

82a-527a. True and permanent boundary line; affirmation and ratification of survey; legal description. The legislature of the state of Kansas hereby affirms and ratifies the boundary survey describing and setting forth as the true and permanent boundary line between Kansas and Missouri the thalweg line (the deep water line) of the channel of the Missouri river abandoned by avulsion in April, 1952, which is more particularly described in the project maps, reports and documents submitted April 30, 1980, by Williamson Engineering & Surveying, St. Joseph, Missouri, consisting of sheets one to sixteen, inclusive, and filed of record in the office of the secretary of state for the state of Kansas, and is described and set forth in said survey as follows:

The true and permanent boundary line between the state of Missouri and the state of Kansas follows the thalweg line at the time of the April, 1952, avulsion and sudden change of the Missouri river channel and is more particularly described as beginning at the intersection of the present thalweg line of the Missouri river channel and the thalweg line of the Missouri river channel as it existed prior to the April, 1952, avulsion and having Kansas State Coordinate of 540240.22 feet north and 2878720.31 feet east of the Kansas North Zone; thence along the thalweg line as it existed prior to the April, 1952, avulsion the following courses and distances:

North 85 50 30 West to an aluminum monument, 482.0 feet; South 67 13 0 West, 814.0 feet to an aluminum monument; South 51 09 0 West, 693.0 feet; South 78 58 0 West, 601 feet to an aluminum monument; South 59 11 0 West, 996 feet to an aluminum monument; South 20 57 30 West, 1725.0 feet; South 51 36 0 West, 658.0 feet; South 42 12 30 West, 1596.0 feet; South 55 30 30 West, 597.0 feet; South 60 26 30 West, 1601.0 feet; South 64 34 30 West, 1237.0 feet; South 87 02 30 West, 368.0 feet; South 73 47 30 West, 602.0 feet; South 85 54 0 West, 1146.0 feet; North 75 38 30 West, 565.0 feet; North 68 54 30 West, 806.0 feet; North 61 58 0 West, 787.0 feet; North 55 20 0 West, 1793.0 feet; North 48 13 0 West, 2897.0 feet; North 43 25 30 West, 902.0 feet; North 28 04 30 West, 1190.0 feet; North 22 01 30 West, 1101.0 feet; North 10 19 30 East, 825.0 feet; North 17 07 30 West, 662.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 8 48 0 East, 556.0 feet; North 4 33 30 West, 692.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 29 27 0 East, 1200.0 feet; North 44 15 0 East, 1096.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 58 32 30 East, 1112.0 feet; North 74 17 0 East, 1181.0 feet; South 55 0 30 East, 855.0 feet; South 89 49 30 East, 1640.0 feet; South 78 07 30 East, 996.0 feet; South 89 07 0 East, 650.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 70 10 30 East, 781.0 feet; South 81 27 30 East, 1042.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 69 36 0 East, 1707.0 feet; North 71 34 0 East, 2498.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 55 57 0 East, 1098.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 48 55 30 East, 982.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 19 01 30 East, 491.0 feet to an aluminum monument; North 51 47 0 East, 503.0 feet; North 34 27 0 East, 521.0 feet; North 40 06 0 East, 373.0 feet to the point of intersection of the thalweg line of the current Missouri river channel and the thalweg line as it existed prior to the April, 1952, avulsion and having Kansas State Coordinate Values of 549195.06 feet North and 2876850.19 feet East of the Kansas North Zone, according to a survey executed by Williamson Engineering & Surveying dated April 30, 1980, and hereby made a part of the legal description.