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

But many playas on agricultural land, including 80% of the more than 22,000 playas in western Kansas, have been plowed and planted over. The effect that farming playas has on their ability to ...

Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological Survey scientists said Tuesday.

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 ...

A new report from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at KU, found that groundwater levels have dropped by over a foot in western and central Kansas.

“This is pretty much the last gap, the last hole in the geologic map of Kansas,” said Rex Buchanan, interim director of the KU-based Kansas Geological Survey.

Inoceramus platinus was a large, flat clam that lived on the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway. It was only an inch or two thick; many adults had shells that were 3 feet across, and some ...

Data from the Kansas Geological Survey shows that the four counties would need to reduce pumping by one-third to stop the aquifer’s depletion over the next decade.

Of these, the Ogallala aquifer underlies most of western Kansas and consists mainly of the Ogallala Formation, a geologic unit that formed from sediment eroded off the uplifting Rocky Mountains.

The Kansas Geological Survey, which monitors the underground water in the state, estimates that 70% of the aquifer will be gone in 50 years.