Introduction

Part I

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Part II A and B

Part II C and D

Part III

Part IV

References

Index

alfalfa, 12
analysis

chloride profile, 64
flow-net, 20
multiple-regression, 14
overlay, 15
sensitivity, 10, 26

aquifer

Central High Plains, 34
confined, 24
Dakota, 41
Equus Beds, 27, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 76
Great Bend Prairie, 27, 62
High Plains, 27, 64, 66, 67
Northern High Plains, 36
Ogallala, 27, 44, 50, 69, 70
unconfined, 26
water-table, 26
Wet Walnut Creek valley, 51
arid, 24

Arkansas River, 34, 41, 49, 58, 59

valley, 47, 49, 53

balance

soil-water, 18
water, 25

baseflow, 36
basin

drainage, 24
ground-water, 4, 25
Rattlesnake Creek, 13

bed

confining, 24

boundary condition, 24

brine plume, 58
budget

hydrologic, 25, 52
predevelopment, 53
soil-moisture, 50

calibration, 24
canal seepage, 48
capacity

available-water, 11, 24, 28, 30
field, 11, 24

capture, 1
Central Midwest Regional Aquifer
Systems Analysis (CMRASA), 27, 29
Cheyenne Bottoms, 56
chlorine-36 (³⁶Cl), 22
chlorofluorocarbons, 22
Cimarron National Grassland, 64
Cimarron River, 34, 37, 39, 41, 42
climatic data, 28
climatic soil-water balance, 27
coefficient

of variation, 16
storage, 26

consumptive use, 24
consumptive water requirement (CWR),
28, 30
crop

coefficient, 11, 24, 28
row, 28
summer, 13

cultivation

dryland, 38

Darcy’s Law or equation, 4, 19, 24
deficit

soil-moisture, 6, 11, 26
soil-water, 28

development period, 34, 36
discharge, 24

area, 24
ground-water, 4
specific, 26

drainage

deep, 24, 31

energy

potential, 4, 25

environment

hydrogeologic, 4, 25

error variance, 53, 54, 58
evaporation, 24
evapotranspiration, 4, 24

ground-water, 50
potential (PET), 25, 52
zone of, 61

fallow, 24, 28, 31
fault

Bear Creek, 67
Crooked Creek–Fowler, 67

field-based experimental recharge studies, 61
flow

base, 24
by-pass, 24
capillary, 7, 24
fingered, 7, 24
macropore, 7, 25
piston (or plug), 22, 25
preferential, 26
return, 34, 50
steady-state, 26

flow net, 25
flow system

ground-water, 4, 25

fringe

capillary, 24

Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
13, 25

overlay analysis, 63

grassland, 13

native, 28

Great Bend Prairie, 14, 15, 44, 45, 62, 63, 90

ground water

perched, 25

ground-water budget

predevelopment, 40

heat-dissipation sensor, 64, 65
High Plains

central, 34
northern, 36

hydraulic head, 4
hydrologic cycle, 3

idle land, 28
infiltration, 25
Intensive Groundwater Use Control Area (IGUCA), 51
interflow, 25
irrigation, 30

demand, 38
return flow, 30, 50, 67
surface-water, 36
wells, 44

Kansas High Plains, 27

land-use data, 28
leakage, 41
Little Arkansas River, 58

basin, 57

loss

transmission, 18

lysimeter, 20

matric suction, 25
McPherson moratorium area, 61
method(ology)

chloride mass-balance, 16, 69
Complementary Relation Areal
Evapotranspiration (CRAE), 19
direct physical, 20
finite-difference, 24
finite-element, 24
hybrid water-fluctuation, 19
indirect physical, 18
Jensen–Haise, 28
physical, 18
regionalization, 63
tracer, 16
water-balance, 18
water-fluctuation, 17
zero-flux plane, 18, 19

model

conceptual, 8, 24
Kansas Water Budget, 57
MODFLOW, 37, 51, 53, 54, 58
numerical, 20
parameter-estimation MODINV, 53, 54

POTYLDR, 51
Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), 54
three-dimensional finite difference, 47
two-dimensional finite difference, 34, 37, 42, 45, 46, 47, 51
Versatile Soil-moisture Budget (VB), 56

Ogallala Formation, 27, 66, 67

pasture, 28
path or pathway

flow, 25
preferred, 22

Pawnee Valley, 50
percolation, 25

deep, 31, 61

permanent wilting percentage, 25
phreatophyte, 6, 25
playa, 6, 25
Poiseuille’s equation, 7
prairie grasses, 12
predevelopment conditions, 34
pumpage

estimated, 38

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, 56
Rattlesnake Creek

basin, 11, 12, 13
watershed, 54, 55

recharge

area, 26
artificial, 24
depression-focused, 6, 24
diffuse, 24
direct, 6, 24
focused, 6, 25
ground-water, 4
indirect, 6, 25
induced, 6, 25
localized, 6, 25
mountain front, 6, 7, 25
natural, 25
predevelopment, 34, 40, 47
preferential, 6, 7, 26
potential, 9, 25
potential natural, 28
rejected, 26
zonation, 15

regional ground-water modeling, 27
Republican River, 46
residence time, 26
residual, 26
riparian, 26

habitat, 26

seepage meter, 20
semiarid, 26
small grain, 28
soil

calcic, 69
Drummond–Tabler, 56
Harney, 54
Tivoli, 54

soils information, 28
Solomon River basin, 51

North Fork valley, 51
South Fork valley, 52, 53

south-central Kansas, 62
southwestern Kansas, 41, 42, 61, 64
standard deviation, 27
standard error, 27, 53
storage

bank, 24

storativity, 26
stream

gaining, 25
losing, 25

system

intermediate, 4
local, 4
regional, 4

technique

chloride-displacement, 16
isotope, 22

texture (soil), 26
tracer, 69

artificial, 23
bomb, 16, 23, 24
chloride, 16, 17, 22, 23
profiles, 22, 64

transit time, 7
transmission losses, 26
transmissivity, 26
transpiration, 26
travel time, 22
tritium (³3H), 22, 23, 69
turnover, 7

vegetation types, 28

water-balance, 26

equation, 11

watershed, 26
water table, 26

perched, 25

Webster Reservoir, 53
wetlands, 56
wetting front, 26
Wet Walnut Creek valley, 51

yield

specific, 18, 26

zone

unsaturated, 26
vadose, 26