Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the &lt;i&gt;Equus&lt;/i&gt; Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, 2012 to 2014

Hansen, Cristi V.; Whisnant, Joshua A.; Lanning-Rush, Jennifer

doi:10.3133/sir20145185

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“…• The ITWC model • Hydrogeological model (The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S Department of the Interior and the Kansas Water Office as per Hansen et al 2014). …”

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Further closing the integrated total water cycle in the Lockyer Valley: a catchment scale integrated water resource management conceptual model

Kelly¹

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There is a need to facilitate decision making on integrated water resource management (IWRM) issues, minimise leakages from and further close the integrated total water cycle (ITWC). The complex social, economic and environmental dimensions and the scarcity of the resource make water management one of the truly "wicked" environmental management problems (cf. Rittel & Webber 1973). This study seeks to contribute to the resolution of this IWRM problem by adding a new definition of IWRM and providing analytical tools for the assessment of water catchments issues, conditions and improving management. A multidisciplinary integrated approach assisted in understanding and managing the complex This study advances water management using an IWRM conceptual approach that further closes the ITWC by focusing on urban-rural IWRM opportunities, going beyond using recycled water for irrigation. This model differs from previous models as it focuses on the ITWC rather than the natural water cycle. The limits of the environment are a feature of this approach, along with recognition of the role of social capital, policy input from government and nongovernment sectors, ecological economic theory and principles, and hydrogeological modelling for a catchment scale conceptual IWRM model, thus setting it apart from previous models in literature. These additions bring a wider perspective to IWRM decision making and assist in the management of ongoing issues of changes in climate, growing demand for irrigation water, population growth, environmental demand for water and excess wastewater.Such issues affect IWRM worldwide.

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“…• The ITWC model • Hydrogeological model (The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S Department of the Interior and the Kansas Water Office as per Hansen et al 2014). …”

Section: The Iterative Approach To the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Further closing the integrated total water cycle in the Lockyer Valley: a catchment scale integrated water resource management conceptual model

Kelly¹

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Documentation of models describing relations between continuous real-time and discrete water-quality constituents in the Little Arkansas River, south-central Kansas, 1998–2019

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Klager²

2022

Open-File Report

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Data were collected at two monitoring sites along the Little Arkansas River in south-central Kansas that bracket most of the easternmost part of the Equus Beds aquifer. The data were used as part of the city of Wichita's aquifer storage and recovery project to evaluate source water quality. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Wichita, has continued to monitor the water quality of these sites through 2019 to update previously published regressionbased models using continuously measured physicochemical properties and discretely sampled water-quality constituents of interest. The purpose of this report is to provide an update of the previously published linear regression models that have been used to continuously compute estimates of water-quality constituent concentrations or densities at these two sites. Water-quality constituent model updates include those for dissolved and suspended solids, suspended-sediment concentration, hardness, alkalinity, primary ions (bicarbonate, calcium, sodium, chloride, and sulfate), nutrients (total Kjeldahl nitrogen and total phosphorus), total organic carbon, indicator bacteria (Escherichia coli and fecal coliform bacteria), a trace element (arsenic), and a pesticide (atrazine).Regression analyses were used to develop surrogate models that related continuously measured physicochemical properties, streamflow, and seasonal components to discretely sampled water-quality constituent concentrations or densities. Specific conductance was an explanatory variable for dissolved solids, primary ions, and atrazine. Turbidity was an explanatory variable for total suspended solids and sediment, nutrients, total organic carbon, and indicator bacteria. Streamflow and water temperature were explanatory variables for dissolved arsenic. Seasonal components were included as explanatory variables for atrazine models. The amount of variance explained by most of the updated models was within 5 percent of previously published models.

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Long-term water-quality constituent trends in the Little Arkansas River, south-central Kansas, 1995–2021

Stone,

Klager

2023

Scientific Investigations Report

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Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, 2012 to 2014

Abstract: Technical reviews by U.S. Geological Survey employees Brian Kelly and Geoff Delin also contributed to improved technical and editorial clarity of the report.

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Further closing the integrated total water cycle in the Lockyer Valley: a catchment scale integrated water resource management conceptual model

Further closing the integrated total water cycle in the Lockyer Valley: a catchment scale integrated water resource management conceptual model

Documentation of models describing relations between continuous real-time and discrete water-quality constituents in the Little Arkansas River, south-central Kansas, 1998–2019

Long-term water-quality constituent trends in the Little Arkansas River, south-central Kansas, 1995–2021

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