Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Part II A and B

Part II C and D

Part III

Part IV

References

Summary

Part IV¹. County-by-county and District-wide Tabulated Recharge Values and Related Statistics (in Excel^© Spreadsheets) for the Kansas Groundwater Management District Regions Based on KGS Bulletins and Other Publications

The following set of five Excel^© spreadsheets (downloadable pdf) [by Groundwater Management District (GMD) region] contain county by county recharge estimates and related information based predominantly on three major sources of information: the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) Bulletins, the 1967 Kansas Water Resources Board (KWRB) Irrigation in Kansas 701-project report, and the USGS 1991 potential natural recharge in Kansas report, although additional sources of information also were used. In addition, summary recharge estimates for each Kansas region (approximately corresponding to each GMD) and related statistics also are given. Based on the aforementioned three major sources of information, the following recharge estimates for the entire Ogallala aquifer of western Kansas (approximately comprised of the regions occupied by GMD’s 1, 3, and 4) and their related statistics are given in table IV–1 opposite. The average of those three mean recharge estimates for the Ogallala aquifer of western Kansas is 0.37 inch/yr.

¹This part was written with the assistance of KGS student assistant Mr. Anish Pradhananga, and it also is available as a separate KGS Open-file Report 2003–11 by Sophocleous and Pradhananga (2003).

TABLE IV–1—Western Kansas Ogallala aquifer recharge estimates and related statistics based on three-agency estimates: Kansas Geological Survey (KGS), Kansas Water Resources Board (KWRB), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).