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KI�WA-BIJ�U DESIGNATED GR+DUNDWATER BASIN March 20�1 This report represents water le�el measurement data for the North Kiowa-Bijou Ground Water Managemen# District for the ZD�1 season. This project was done in cooperation with the Management District and with local well owners. Funding for the project is suppfied in part from weil permit fees collected and managed by the Office of the State Engineer as a cash fund designated for use in obtaining ground water information throughout the state. A total of 3fi wells were measured dur�ng the month of February 2001. These wells are all part of the observation well network that has been measured for many years. Records on at least one well date back to 1936. However, mos� of the wells date from the 1950's and � 95D's. Unfortunately we were unable to measure the entire nerinrork in 2�n0 and the one-year change for wells measured may not be representative of changes for 20D0 tv 2�01. Water level changes for 14 wells measured between 204Q and 2D�1 range from a decline o�f 2 feet to a rise of 1 foot. The a�erage change for the 2�0� to 2001 period is a decline of 1.�4 feet compared to a decline of D.971 feet between 1998 and 1999. For the last five years, the average decline in the basin has been �.45 feet per year. The a�erage decline for the last 1 � years has been a decline of 0.5fi feet. The northern half of the basin exhibits declining water levels with the greatest deciines being in the most northerly portion af the basin. Included in this report are water level data and hydrographs for all wells currently in the monitoring netwvrk. Information concerning bedrock wells for the Den�er Basin Aquifers will be availabie in June vf this year and can be obtained from t�e Qffice of the State Engineer. Copies of this report are being made availabYe to all well owners whose wells were measured as part of this project. Additional copies of the report can be purchased frvm the �ffice of the State Engineer.