Data used to map water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015 and 2013 to 2015
Dates
Publication Date
2017-06-01
Start Date
1950
End Date
2015
Citation
McGuire, V.L., 2017, Data used to map water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015 and 2013 to 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7SB43WM.
Summary
This USGS data release consists of two geospatial raster datasets and three geospatial vector data sets of water-level data. The data sets include a raster (A1) representing water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015; the primary vector dataset (A2) of water-level-change data of static or near-static water levels in wells measured in predevelopment and 2015 (for wells in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas) and in wells measured in predevelopment and the latest available static or near-static water level from 2011 to 2015 (for wells in New Mexico and Wyoming), a supplemental vector dataset (A3) of water-level data used to manually substantiate the raster of water-level change from predevelopment [...]
Summary
This USGS data release consists of two geospatial raster datasets and three geospatial vector data sets of water-level data. The data sets include a raster (A1) representing water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015; the primary vector dataset (A2) of water-level-change data of static or near-static water levels in wells measured in predevelopment and 2015 (for wells in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas) and in wells measured in predevelopment and the latest available static or near-static water level from 2011 to 2015 (for wells in New Mexico and Wyoming), a supplemental vector dataset (A3) of water-level data used to manually substantiate the raster of water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015, a raster (B1) representing water-level change from 2013 to 2015; and the vector dataset (B2) of water-level-change data for wells measured in 2013 and 2015. The supplemental vector data sets of water-level-change data used to manually substantiate the raster of water-level change from predevelopment (about 1950) to 2015 are composed of (1) water-level-change data from wells measured before June 15, 1978, but not during or before the predevelopment period for the area, and in 2015, (2) for wells not measured in predevelopment or before June 15, 1978 but measured in 1980 and in 2015, calculated water-level-change data derived from the sum of the water-level-change value from 1980 to 2015 and the beginning water-level-change value from the contours of water-level change, predevelopment to 1980 (Luckey and others, 1981; Cederstrand and Becker, 1999), (3) water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in predevelopment and 2014 and not measured in 2015, (4) water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2013 and not measured in 2014 or in 2015, (5) the water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2012 and not measured in 2013, 2014, or 2015, (6) the water-level-change data for wells located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas and measured in measured in predevelopment and 2011 and not measured in 2012, 2013, 2014, or 2015. The raster and vector data support USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5040, Water-Level Changes and Change in Recoverable Water in Storage in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2015 and 2013-15.
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McGuire, V.L., 2017, Water-level and recoverable water in storage changes, High Plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2015 and 2013–15: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5040, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175040.