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Tue, 02/23/2021
LAWRENCE After three years of small increases, average groundwater levels in central and western Kansas dropped during 2020 as most of the area experienced abnormally dry conditions for much of the year, according to preliminary data compiled by the Kansas Geological Survey.
“It was hot and dry last summer, and water levels pretty much dropped everywhere,” said Brownie Wilson, KGS water-data manager. “Levels didn’t drop as much as in the really dry years of 2011 and 2012, but declines were a step in that direction.”
Water levels in measured wells declined an average of 0.93 feet overall in 2020. In the drought years of 2011 and 2012, average levels across all monitored wells decreased 1.95 and 2.04 feet, respectively. About 90% of the monitored wells are drilled into the High Plains aquifer.
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Wed, 12/16/2020
LAWRENCE A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in western Kansas measuring groundwater levels the first week of January.
Levels are measured annually as part of a joint project conducted by the KGS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) to monitor the health of the state’s valuable groundwater resources.
Weather permitting, the KGS crew will be working in the following areas:
Jan. 4: Near Colby and Atwood
Jan. 5: Goodland and St. Francis
Jan. 6: Tribune, Syracuse and Ulysses
Jan. 7: Elkhart and Liberal
Jan. 8: Meade and Dodge City.