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The Equus Beds Aquifer is a distinct part the High Plains Aquifer System [1] and is a principal municipal aquifer in south-central Kansas, [2] underlying Hutchinson, McPherson, Newton, and Wichita. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The KGS also provides a Kansas Master Groundwater Well Inventory (MWI)—a central repository that imports and links together the state's primary groundwater well data sets—and continuously monitors and collects data from three western Kansas wells as part of its index-well program. The KGS releases the real-time data from the index wells ...
In 2008, the well was named one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas. Although it is billed as the world's largest hand-dug well, at 109 feet (33 m) deep and 32 feet (9.8 m) in diameter, [ 6 ] the Well of Joseph in the Cairo Citadel at 280 feet (85 m) deep and the Pozzo di San Patrizio (St. Patrick's Well) built in 1527 in Orvieto, Italy , at 61 metres ...
The Legislature loosened pumping regulations and continued to over-distribute water rights. “Ever since 1975 every well that was drilled out here was approved in Topeka, Kansas,” Peterson said ...
The city of Great Bend’s water treatment at Crescent Park #5 found the highest concentration of PFAS in the state, ranging to 1.3 times the allowable limit to 36 times the allowable limit.
George S. Knapp, who had been appointed state irrigation commissioner, became the first chief engineer in 1927. Under his 32 years of service, various laws were enacted, including the Levee Law (1929), Obstructions in Streams (1929), Water Storage Law (1941), and the Kansas Water Appropriation Act (1945).
Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Southwestern Lunatic Asylum–Hot Wells, San Antonio, Texas; Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Florida; Well ...
Chemicals that could cause cancer were found in drinking water in four of the biggest cities in Kansas between 2016 to 2021, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tap water in Kansas was tested ...