Report Title:Dissolved solids and sodium in water from the High Plains aquifer
in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Report Number: Map HA-658
Author: Noel C. Krothe, Joseph W. Oliver, and John B. Weeks
Abstract
In 1978, the U.S. Geological Survey initiated a 5-year study of the
High Plains regional aquifer to provide: (1) Hydrologic information
needed to evaluate the effects of continued ground-water development;
and (2) computer models to predict aquifer response to changes in
ground-water development. The plan of study for the High Plains
Regional Aquifer-System Analysis was described by Weeks (1978). A
description of the High Plains aquifer and a map of the 1978 water
table were presented by Gutentag and Weeks (1980). Maps of the bedrock
geology, altitude of aquifer base, and saturated thickness of the High
Plains aquifer were published by Weeks and Gutentag
(1981). Water-level and saturated-thickness changes, from
predevelopment to 1980, were mapped by Luckey, Gutentag, and Weeks
(1981). This report describes the areal distribution of dissolved
solids and sodium in the water of the High Plains aquifer. Data used
in this study were provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and State
agencies in each of the eight States in the High Plains. Their
contribution is an integral part of this investigation.
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