This month marks the retirement David Barfield, Chief Engineer. Applications are being accepted for this position, and the search process will proceed this spring to hire a replacement for it. In the meantime, Chris Beightel has been named to fill this role on an interim basis as acting Chief Engineer. …
Ken Kopp, Water Rights/Source Water Specialist with the Kansas Rural Water Association (KRWA), wrote an article for KRWA’s The Kansas Lifeline titled “DWR Chief Engineer Passes the Torch”, that details the lives and careers of the Division of Water Resource’s (DWR) five Chief Engineers, and in doing so, provides a history of DWR and the progress of laws that it administers. This article comes as the fifth Chief Engineer, David Barfield, prepares for his retirement on February 28, 2020.
You can read the article here:
https://krwa.net/portals/krwa/lifeline/2003/DWRChief.pdf …