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<br />for primary information and analysis are only typical, representative <br />and illustrative of the large Ogallala Aquifer Study Area. As such, <br />they provide some different insights into expected future conditions <br />in the High Plains as the water resource declines. <br />Study Element 8-11, Analysis of Alternative Development <br />Strategies, develops a comprehensive regional impact model to <br />augment and consolidate work of the States. In its development, <br />the modelers have defined the region in two broad sub-sets for <br />analytical purposes. These are a northern and a southern region <br />Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado counties overlying the Ogallala <br />Formation as the northern States; Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico <br />counties as the southern States. As a result, 8-9 analysts have <br />selected two case study areas which are considered reasonably <br />representative or illustrative of each of these two larger sub- <br />regions. <br />In this 8-9 assessment, evaluations are presented which relate <br />to both the northern and southern regions, as represented by a 14- <br />county Southwest Kansas survey area and a nine-county Texas South <br />Plains survey area. Map I portrays these two study areas in rela- <br />tion to the States and the larger study region. They are judged to <br />be the best suited of any manageable group of counties for evalu- <br />ation of the northern and southern regions. While there are differ- <br />ences among the many counties in the study regions, the soils, <br />terrain, temperature, rainfall, growing season, history of aquifer <br />development. depths to water tablei population, trade area, indus- <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />. <br />- <br /> <br />IlI-6 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />Arthur D Lillle.lnc I <br />