Hydrohistorian
Denver Basin bedrock
Confined sandstone aquifer; negligible human-timescale recharge — pumping is one-way storage mining.
Because this aquifer does not recharge on a human timescale, a decline here is storage being removed, not a stream being short. It is kept out of the stream-depletion math for that reason.
Water-level record
12 measurements from 1986-05-30 to 1999-02-28. Most recent water-level elevation 4675.0 ft, 1025.0 ft below ground.
Over the record the level is decreasing at -369.53 ft per decade (p = 0.0005, n = 12). Mann–Kendall with the Hamed–Rao autocorrelation correction, on water-level elevation; rising elevation means more water.
Chart: water level at this well over time, 1986-05-30 to 1999-02-28, 12 measurements. The record is decreasing at -369.53 feet per decade (p equals 0.0005), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.
The well itself
| Aquifer | ARAPAHOE |
|---|---|
| Designated basin | DENVER BASIN |
| Ground elevation | 5700.0 ft |
| Permit | 17422 |
| Location | 39.58000, -104.91000 |
What this page is not
Monitoring records are irregular: measurements cluster where somebody chose to look, so a trend describes this well's record, not the aquifer as a whole. Levels are DWR's published measurements, unedited. A trend here is not a prediction, and it is not a determination about anyone's water right.