Report Title: Ground-water in the Verdigris River basin, Kansas and Oklahoma
Report Number: OFR 75-365
Author: Stuart W. Fader and Robert B. Morton
Abstract
Ground water in the Verdigris River basin occurs in consolidated rocks
and unconsolidated deposits ranging in age from Mississippian to
Quaternary. Water for municipal, industrial, and irrigation supplies
generally can be obtained in limited quantities from the alluvial
deposits in the stream valleys. Except for water in the alluvial
deposits in the stream valleys and in the outcrop areas of the bedrock
aquifers, the groundwater is generally of poor chemical quality. Owing
to the generally poor chemical quality of water and low yields to
wells, an increase in the use of ground water from the consolidated
rocks is improbable.
The unconsolidated rocks in the Verdigris River basin receive about
166,000 acre-feet of recharge annually, and about 1 million acre-fee
of water is in temporary storage in the deposits. In 1968 about 4,200
acre-feet of ground was withdrawn for all uses. About 800 acre-feet of
ground and 5,000 acre-feet of surface water were pumped for irrigation
of 5,300 acres of cropland. The total annual withdrawal of ground
water for irrigation may be 2,000 acre-feet by the year 2000.
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