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NHP-AR-060 COX, ALFRED

Monitored well · 722 · 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

103 measurements from 1965-02-15 to 2026-01-08. Most recent water-level elevation 4071.4 ft, 168.5 ft below ground.

Over the record the level is decreasing at -11.8 ft per decade (p = 0.0, n = 103). 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, 1965-02-15 to 2026-01-08, 103 measurements. The record is decreasing at -11.8 feet per decade (p equals 0.0), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.

The well itself

AquiferOGALLALA
Designated basinNORTHERN HIGH PLAINS
Total depth230.0 ft
Perforated interval150.0–230.0 ft
Ground elevation4239.9 ft
Reported yield1200.0 gpm
Permit6763
Location39.65000, -102.65000
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.