A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey will be in western Kansas to start measuring groundwater levels the first week of January 2025.

Shallow depressions that hold water from rainfall and runoff to create small temporary lakes called playas dot the western Great Plains. When full, they’re transformed into mini-wetlands that ...

Western Kansas’ management area saw a half-foot decline, on par with the year before. Northwest Kansas, which has been struggling with dry conditions, saw the aquifer decline 1.34 feet, a far ...

The University said dry conditions were also prevalent in the west-central and northwest parts of the state. It said Western Kansas GMD 1 saw a groundwater-level drop of 0.51 feet in 2021, after ...

Dry conditions were also prevalent in the west-central and northwest portions of the state. Western Kansas GMD 1 experienced a groundwater-level drop of 0.51 feet in 2021, after falling 0.59 in ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Geological Survey reported Wednesday groundwater levels in the High Plains Aquifer could be sustained for at least one decade in moisture-imperiled areas of western Kansas ...

KU team solves century-old Kansas geological mystery Age of red beds at Point of Rocks was last remaining stratigraphy dispute in state News. Jan 2, 2016 - 12:00am ...

In early January 2013, the KGS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources (DWR) measured water levels in approximately 1,400 water wells in 47 western and central ...