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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 1989-04-01 to 2010-03-11. Most recent water-level elevation 4585.0 ft, 1200.0 ft below ground.

Over the record the level is decreasing at -336.67 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, 1989-04-01 to 2010-03-11, 12 measurements. The record is decreasing at -336.67 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

AquiferARAPAHOE
Designated basinDENVER BASIN
Total depth1824.0 ft
Perforated interval885.0–1829.0 ft
Ground elevation5785.0 ft
Permit16309
Location39.58000, -104.87000
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.