BENSON, STEVE ☆ My Water

Monitored well · 768 · Division 1 · Water District 49

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

40 measurements from 1965-06-23 to 2009-01-01. Most recent water-level elevation 4740.83 ft, 146.4 ft below ground.

Over the record the level is decreasing at -0.57 ft per decade (p = 0.0228, n = 40). 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, 1965-06-23 to 2009-01-01, 40 measurements. The record is decreasing at -0.57 feet per decade (p equals 0.0228), 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	184.0 ft
Perforated interval	140.0–184.0 ft
Ground elevation	4887.23 ft
Reported yield	400.0 gpm
Permit	10049
Location	39.45000, -103.10000

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.