Item talk:Q229627

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nebraska-water-science-center/science/high-plains-water-level-monitoring-study",
 "headline": "High Plains Water-Level Monitoring Study",
 "datePublished": "February 21, 2017",
 "author": [
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     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Virginia L McGuire",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/virginia-l-mcguire",
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     "text": "Additional information about the High Plains area, the High Plains Aquifer, data, and publications are available on the High Plains Water-Level Monitoring Study web site."
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     "text": "Findings from the Current Report"
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     "text": "These results are available in USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5040 titled \"Water-level and recoverable water in storage changes, High Plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2015 and 2013\u201315\"."
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     "text": "Additional Information"
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     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "Specifically, scientists at the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center"
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     "text": "The High Plains aquifer underlies 174,000 mi2 in parts of eight States:"
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     "text": "High Plains Area"
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     "text": "The area that overlies the aquifer occupies part of the Great Plains Physiographic Province. The Great Plains Physiographic Province is a vast east-tilted surface formed by deposition of sediment eroded from the ancestral Rocky Mountains, beginning about 65 million years ago. The Great Plains Physiographic Province is characterized by gently sloping, smooth plains. The land surface elevation of the High Plains area ranges from about 7,800 feet above the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) on the western boundary to 1,160 feet above NGVD 29 on the eastern boundary."
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     "text": "The directive from Congress was contained in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662). This law recognized the economic importance of the High Plains aquifer to the States in the High Plains region and added Title III to the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-242). Title III states that the USGS in cooperation with \"...the States of the High Plains region is authorized and directed to monitor the levels of the Ogallala [High Plains] Aquifer, and report annually to Congress.\""
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     "text": "The High Plains aquifer underlies 111.8 million acres (about 175,000 square miles) in parts of eight States\u2014Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. In response to a directive from Congress, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with local, state, and federal entities, has collected water-level data from wells screened in the High Plains aquifer and has estimated water-level and storage changes in the aquifer from the time before substantial groundwater irrigation development began (predevelopment or generally before 1950) to the present."
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   "name": "Nebraska Water Science Center",
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