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The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]
In March 2008, a vigorous, slow moving low pressure system moved out of Texas and into Arkansas inundating the area with over a foot of rain falling in some areas of Arkansas and Missouri. [15] Heavy rainfall rates caused the river to over flow its banks with an observed maximum depth of 22.29 feet (6.79 m).
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5.1: near Goshen: West Fork White River: 166 4.7: near Fayetteville: Little Missouri River: 148 4.2: near Langley: James Fork: 147 4.2: near Hackett: Osage Creek: 134 3.8: near Elm Springs: Richland Creek: 118 3.3: near Witts Spring: Bear Creek: 108 3.1: near Silver Hill: Rolling Fork River? no measurement gauge, but hundreds of cfs Strawberry ...
“Right now what we’re seeing is a seasonal decline. Water levels are dropping as water is moving from the aquifer towards pumping centers, towards areas where a lot of water is being pumped ...
Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday. “We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it ...
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An artesian spring is created when the pressure for the groundwater becomes greater than the pressure from the atmosphere. In this case the water is pushed straight up out of the ground. [7] Wonky holes are freshwater submarine exit points for coral and sediment-covered, sediment-filled old river channels. [8]