Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the Equus Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2006 to January 2010

Hansen, Cristi V.; Aucott, Walter R.

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“…Water levels and storage changes in the study area have been documented in previous years (Hansen, 2009(Hansen, , 2012Hansen and Aucott, 2010;others, 2013, 2014;Whisnant and others, 2015). Hansen and others (2013) mapped the 1993 historic low water levels.…”

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Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2016

Klager¹

2016

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Status of Groundwater Levels and Storage Volume in the EquusFor an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery, and publications, visit http://store.usgs.gov.Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it also may contain copyrighted materials as noted in the text. Permission to reproduce copyrighted items must be secured from the copyright owner. Status of Groundwater Levels and Storage Volume in the Equus Beds Aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2016By Brian J. Klager AbstractThe Equus Beds aquifer in south-central Kansas, which is part of the High Plains aquifer, serves as a source of water for municipal and agricultural users in the area. The city of Wichita has used the Equus Beds aquifer as one of its primary water sources since the 1940s. The aquifer in and around Wichita's well field reached historically low water levels in 1993, prompting the city to adopt new water-use and conservation strategies to ensure future water supply needs were met. Part of the plan was to initiate a managed aquifer recharge program called the Equus Beds Aquifer Storage and Recovery project. The goal of the managed aquifer recharge program is to artificially recharge the Equus Beds aquifer with treated water from the Little Arkansas River. As part of the Equus Beds Aquifer Storage and Recovery project, the city of Wichita and the U.S. Geological Survey have partnered in a long-term cooperative study to monitor and describe the quantity and quality of the water in the Equus Beds aquifer and the Little Arkansas River.The city of Wichita, the Equus Beds Groundwater Management District No. 2, the Kansas Department of Agriculture-Division of Water Resources, and the U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater levels in numerous wells screened in the Equus Beds aquifer in the area in and around Wichita's well field in January 2016. The measurements were used to interpolate potentiometric surfaces for shallow and deep parts of the aquifer in the study area. These potentiometric surfaces were compared with potentiometric surfaces from previous years to estimate changes in water levels and storage volume in the study area.

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“…This value was determined from calibration of a groundwater-flow model of the Equus Beds aquifer by Kelly and others (2013). Earlier reports (Hansen and Aucott, 2010;Hansen, 2009Hansen, , 2012 had used a specific yield value of 0.20.…”

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Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2016

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2016

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“…Recent reports have indicated that since January 1993, higher water levels have been recorded in the Equus Beds aquifer because of near-normal to greater-than-normal precipitation and decreased city pumpage Hansen and Aucott, 2001, 2004Hansen, 2007Hansen, , 2009aHansen, , 2009bHansen, , 2011. Pumpage for agricultural irrigation, which can vary as much as 40 percent from year to year, tended to decrease in years of greater-than-normal precipitation and increase in years of normal to lessthan-normal precipitation (Hansen, 2007;Hansen and Aucott, 2010); thus, decreased pumpage for agricultural irrigation likely contributed to the higher water levels only in years of greater-than-normal precipitation. Water levels in wells in the study area have continued to remain relatively high ( fig.…”

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“…This is similar to the long-term average annual precipitation of 31.52 in. that was estimated for the study area by Hansen and Aucott (2010).…”

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Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the Equus Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2006 to January 2010

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Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2016

Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2016

Status of groundwater levels and storage volume in the <i>Equus</i> Beds aquifer near Wichita, Kansas, January 2011

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