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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 ...
Kansas has the 7th highest agricultural production of any state – much of it irrigated by the Ogallala, which accounts for 75% of the groundwater use in the state.
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.
A proposed change to how the federal government calculates interest on the state's water storage contracts at Milford Lake and Perry Lake, seen here, could save Kansas taxpayers more than $41 million.
The Division of Water Resources within the Kansas Department of Agriculture governs the use and allocation of the state's water resources; regulates the construction of dams, levees and other changes to streams; represents Kansas on its four interstate river compacts; and coordinates the National Flood Insurance Program in Kansas. [2]
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is urging the public to use water "wisely" as the state's drought continues.. The effects of drought are "diverse and complex", but the state could see ...