Hydrohistorian
SOEHNER, DALE
Monitored well · 671 · Division 1 · Water District 65
Its well permit here · Well permit at DWR ↗ · DWR structure record ↗ · Its structure dossier here · Download levels (CSV)
High Plains / Ogallala
Effectively non-recharging in eastern Colorado; declines are storage depletion, a separate ledger line.
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
53 measurements from 1955-06-07 to 2024-02-26. Most recent water-level elevation 3638.0 ft, 230.4 ft below ground.
Over the record the level is decreasing at -3.41 ft per decade (p = 0.0005, n = 53). 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, 1955-06-07 to 2024-02-26, 53 measurements. The record is decreasing at -3.41 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 | OGALLALA |
|---|---|
| Designated basin | NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS |
| Total depth | 293.0 ft |
| Perforated interval | 201.0–293.0 ft |
| Ground elevation | 3868.4 ft |
| Reported yield | 1750.0 gpm |
| Permit | 7197 |
| Location | 39.77000, -102.19000 |
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.