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<br />25 <br /> <br /> <br />OO'iO <br /> <br />PART VI <br />GROUND WATER RECHARGE FOSSIBILITIES <br /> <br />The Arkansas River Valley near the Colorado-Kansas State line <br /> <br />is flanked on either side by closed basins. On the north is White <br /> <br />Woman Creek which terminates in the Scott-Finney Depression, also <br /> <br />known as the Modoc closed basin. On the south is Bear Creek which <br /> <br />under normal conditions terminates in a depression in northwestern <br /> <br />Grant County about ten miles north of UJ.yses, Kansas. Although <br /> <br />normally a closed basin, in times of extremely high flood flows in <br /> <br />Bear Creek, the basin may overflow either into the Cimarron River <br /> <br />drainage on the south or the Arkansas River on the north. Extensive <br /> <br />ground water development has taken place in both of the basins . <br /> <br />White Woman Creek <br /> <br />In receDt years extensive use of ground water for irrigation <br /> <br />has developed in the vicinity of Scott City, Kansas. The ground <br /> <br />water supply is replenished from precipitation over this area and <br /> <br />from the runoff of White Woman Creelt which terminates in the Madoc <br /> <br />closed basin just south of Scott City. The present pumping load <br />may have exceeded the natural recharge ability of the aquifer. If <br /> <br />not, further expansion probably will deplete the ground water supply. <br /> <br />It is physically possible to supplement the natural recharge <br /> <br />of the aquifer from surplus flows of the Arkansas River as shown on <br /> <br />exhibit 1. Water stored in a main stem reservoir at either the <br /> <br />Syracuse or Hartland site could be diverted through a canal heading <br />just upstream from the town of Hartland. The canal, about 45 miles <br /> <br />in length, would terminate on White Woman Creek about 13 miles <br />