Kansas Geological Survey, Open-File Rept. 91-1
Annual Report, FY 90--Page 9 of 9
Liaison Activities with Federal, Other State, and Local Agencies and the Public
During FY90 the Kansas Geological Survey consulted with and provided
information on the Dakota aquifer to several federal, other state, and
local agencies and the public. In FY90 the Survey worked on the Dakota
aquifer with the U.S. Geological Survey through cooperative arrangements
between agencies primarily in southwestern Kansas and southeastern
Colorado. In the southeastern Colorado area the U.S. Geological Survey
conducted a field survey of water wells to collect water-level data.
Both agencies have also been actively working with Groundwater
Management District 3 in southwestern Kansas to develop a research plan
for FY91-92 that meets the regulatory needs of the District. The Dakota
aquifer program also consulted with and gave briefings to the
Interagency Dakota Technical Committee periodically during FY90. Short
briefings have also been given to all of the basin planning committees
in the western and central part of Kansas. Information from the program
has also been given to the city of Burdett to assist the city government
in its search for new municipal well sites.
During FY90 a wide diversity of research and research support activities
were completed to further the goals of the Dakota aquifer program in
southwestern Kansas-southeastern Colorado and central Kansas. These are
listed here by program emphasis. In the geologic framework part of the
program these include: (1) completion of a test-hole drilling program
in Republic and Washington counties, (2) development of a southeastern
Colorado geologic data base, (3) completion of an analysis of the
Dakota aquifer framework in central Kansas using borehole geophysical
logs and core obtained from test-hole drilling, and (4) additional
well-log digitizing of borehole geophysical logs to increase the density
of coverage in south-central Kansas.
In the geohydrology part of the program these include: (1) collection
of current water-level information from field surveys of wells in
southeastern Colorado and southwestern and north-central Kansas, (2)
development of methods to analyze pumping tests in aquifers like the
Dakota, (3) development of a core permeability data base from
laboratory measurements on core samples, and (4) a pumping test of an
irrigation well in Washington County.
In the ground-water geochemistry and water quality part of the program
these include: (1) collection and analysis of water samples from wells
in southwestern and central Kansas for water-quality assessment of
Dakota ground waters, determination of geochemical controls on water
chemistry, and estimation of the relative ages of recharge; (2)
revision of Plate 2 from the FY89 annual report; (3) development of a
user-friendly interface for interactive mapping and query of
hydrologic-related data in the ARC/INFO geographic information system;
and (4) development of an improved method of water-quality information
display based on color information theory and using the ARC/INFO
geographic information system.
Finally, in the area of research support, the FY89 Dakota aquifer
program annual report was completed and published as KGS Open-File
Report 90-27.
During FY90-93 the overall objective of the Dakota aquifer program is to
characterize subregionally the water-resources potential of the areas
where the Dakota aquifer is shallowest and is undergoing development in
central and southwestern Kansas. The progress made during the FY90
program has provided much new information that will be used to update
existing data bases, to locate monitoring sites in the Dakota aquifer in
FY91, and to construct simulations of the Dakota aquifer in southeastern
Colorado and southwestern and central Kansas in FY92-93. In FY94 these
simulations will be used to evaluate various management options for the
Dakota aquifer in Kansas.
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Electronic version placed online Nov. 1998
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