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Abandoned Mine Land Program - The Surface Mining Section is responsible for the
reclamation of abandoned coalmines in Kansas and administers federal funds from the Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to address past mining problems that are
hazardous to the health, safety, and general welfare of the public. Reclamation includes land
clearing, backfilling and grading, erosion and site drainage control, guardrail and fence
installation, demolition and disposal, and revegetation. The Abandoned Land Mine Emergency
Program provides for the remediation of sites that are an immediate threat to the health and
safety of the general public. These problems require prompt action and therefore cannot be
reclaimed through ordinary program procedures. Kansas currently has over 350 abandoned
coal mine sites identified with health and safety problems. Typical abatement activities include
backfilling mine subsidence holes in residential areas and near roads and filling subsurface
voids beneath structures and roads with cement grout.
Kansas Brownfields Program - Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment,
or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous
substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Often the potential liability associated with contamination
complicates business development, property transactions, or expansion on these properties.
Cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields properties is necessary to preserve neighborhoods,
reduce urban sprawl, and stop the continued development of new industrial and commercial
facilities on farmland. By investigating and cleaning up a brownfields property and taking care of
the site's potential health or environmental risks, communities can use local land again -
producing jobs, increasing the tax base, or adding other benefits such as creating a park or
residential area.
Almost every city and county, in both rural and urban areas, has brownfields properties. KDHE
currently has programs to assist communities with the redevelopment of brownfields properties.
State Water Plan Contamination Remediation Program - Funding from the State Water Plan
Fund is provided for the evaluation, monitoring, and remediation of contaminated groundwater
or surface water sites, as well as contamination source areas in Kansas where the responsible
party is not known or is unable or unwilling to undertake the necessary action. The program also
provides funding to supply alternate water sources as an emergency response action to
residences with contaminated drinking water sources.
Kansas Department of Insurance
The Department provides estimates of storm losses in Kansas since 2002 as a public service
http://www.ksinsurance.org/storms/index.php . The data consists of windstorm, tornado and hail
damage or other weather-related claim losses for insured real and personal property. It is
reported for each calendar year and monthly during the calendar year. The Department also
promotes flood and earthquake insurance as a pre-mitigation measure.
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