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Characteristics of the High Plains aquifer

State

Characteristic

Unit

Total

Area underlain by aquifer

mi²

174,050

14,900

30,500

63,650

9,450

7,350

4,750

35,450

8,000

Percent of total aquifer area

Percent

100

8.6

17.5

36.6

5.4

4.2

2.7

20.4

4.6

Percent of each state underlain by aquifer

Percent

Average area-weighted saturated thickness in 1980

190

101

342

130

207

110

182

Volume of drainable water in storage in 1980

Million acre-ft

3,250

120

320

2,130

110

390

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References

Dugan, J.T., McGrath, Timothy, and Zelt, R.B., 1994, Water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer--predevelopment to 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4027, 56 p.

Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p.

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