BOARD00531

• Board Meeting Date: 5/7/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

The progress that we have made for the
Water Board: - I would like to precede that
by indicating that in addition to the Water
Board program, we have recently picked up a
couple of other programs on a cooperative
basis with some other agencies. One was with
the Highway Department which I mentioned
last year, at the meeting in November. The
most recent One is with the Plains Ground
Water Management District.

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In the High Plains we already have a
study going with the state engineer's office.
The Plains is an area where water is being
mined. All of the water that is available
in this area is derived from precipitation and
the precipitation that has accumulated during
the past many million years. Now man's
activities in this area are depleting the
water supply. This shows a cross-section of
the area from the west to the east. You will
notice that the aquifer is very thin over
here on the east side and a little bit thicker
on the west. It has an undulating surface
where the water supply is greater in some
places than in others. One of the possibili-
ties for increasing this supply is to use
what surface water is available in the area
and get it into the ground, thus recharging
the aquifer extending the water supply for
some time.

The Plains Ground Water Management Dis-
trick asked us to initiate a project and our
project is designed to show what the avail-
ability of water is in their area, their
immediate area of interest. This, of course,
will add a transfer value to the rest of the
basin. Accordingly, we installed some stream
gages at four different points within the
Management district. We have one on Lands-
man Creek, one on Beaver Creek and two on
the Smokey Hill River. The purpose of these.
gages is to show both the availability of
surface water and to determine how much

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