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High Plains Aquifer Resources and Information
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| Time period | State | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | Kansas | Nebraska | New Mexico | Oklahoma | South Dakota | Texas | Wyoming | High Plains | |
| 1987-88 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | -0.1 | 0.8 | -- | 0.3 |
| 1988-89 | -0.6 | -1.7 | -0.8 | 0.1 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | -0.6 | -0.7 |
| 1989-90 | -0.6 | -0.2 | -0.6 | -0.3 | -0.3 | -0.6 | -1.2 | -0.9 | -0.6 |
| 1990-91 | -0.5 | -0.7 | -0.3 | -0.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | -0.7 | -0.1 | -0.4 |
| 1991-92 | -0.2 | -1.1 | -0.5 | -0.3 | -0.4 | 0.1 | -0.6 | 0.1 | -0.6 |
| 1992-93 | -0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | -0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | -0.4 | 0.2 |
| 1993-94 | -0.1 | 0.6 | 1.8 | -0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | -1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| 1994-95 | -0.7 | -1.2 | 0.2 | -0.9 | -0.4 | 0.1 | -1.8 | -0.8 | -0.7 |
| 1995-96 | -0.1 | -0.5 | -0.1 | -1.2 | -1.0 | 0.7 | -1.4 | 0.3 | -0.5 |
| 1996-97 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | -0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | -1.0 | -0.2 | 0.1 |
| 1997-98 | -0.3 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.8 | 0.0 | -0.1 | -0.5 | 0.2 | -0.2 |
| 1998-99 | -0.2 | -0.4 | 0.5 | -1.0 | -0.6 | 1.0 | -1.5 | -0.2 | -0.3 |
| 1999-00 | -0.2 | -0.3 | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.1 | -0.5 | -0.1 | -0.2 |
| 2000-01 | -1.0 | -1.0 | -0.7 | -0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -0.5 | -0.2 | -0.6 |
| 2001-02 | -0.6 | -0.8 | -0.5 | -0.7 | -0.3 | -0.2 | -0.8 | -0.3 | -0.6 |
| 2002-03 | -1.0 | -1.7 | -1.3 | -0.6 | -0.8 | -0.8 | -1.2 | -0.3 | -1.2 |
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.
Luckey, R.R., Gutentag, E.D., and Weeks, J.B., 1981, Water level and saturated thickness changes, predevelopment to 1980, in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-652, scale 1:2,500,000. 2 sheets.
McGuire, V.L., 2003, Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2001, 1999 to 2000, and 2000 to 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-078-03, 4 p.
____, 2004, Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2002, 1980 to 2002, and 2001 to 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet-2004-3026, 4 p.
McGuire, V.L., Johnson, M.R., Schieffer, R.L., Stanton, J.S., Sebree, S.K., and Verstraeten, I.M., 2003, Water in storage and approaches to ground-water management, High Plains aquifer, 2000: U.S. Geology Survey Circular 1243, 51 p.
McGuire, V.L., 2004, Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-2004-3097, 6 p.
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