Blog Profile / Wisdom in Water
| URL : | http://nwksgmd4.blogspot.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Utilities / Water | |
| Posts on Regator: | 227 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.7 | |
| Archived Since: | November 19, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
More On The Work of Groundwater
As I've blogged before, groundwater works a number of ways on and within the earth to change the landscape over time. Stream bank erosion and possibly caves are the most visible and obvious examples. But groundwater can work in other ways as well. Show More Summary
Kansas Thinks Drought Will Continue
The state water planners, the Governor included, are thinking the 2011-2012 drought in Kansas is more likely to continue for another year as to end. As such, they are starting to notify water users of this possibility. I guess maybeShow More Summary
Groundwater Management Districts Association
GMDA is about to convene its 38th Annual Conference in Austin, Texas on January 9, 2013. The venue headquarters will be the Crowne Plaza Austin.The theme this year is "Local Water Planning" and is being hosted by the YMD Joint Water Management District in Stoneville, MS. Show More Summary
Texas District Initiates On-line Meter Reporting
The High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (HPWD) developed an on-line reporting system for meter readings which their new regulations now require annually. Actually, the district requires either a meter reading or an "alternative measuring method reading" each year between December 15 and January 15 of the following year. Show More Summary
Climate & Energy Project
I was contacted a few months ago about participating in a new effort being developed by the Climate and Energy Project - a Kansas University-based group interested in water and energy conservation in the Midwest. Their effort involves promoting o n-farm water and energy efficiency. Show More Summary
Wells & Accidents - Kathy Fiscus
Kathy Fiscus rescue scene - 1949 One of the more famous abandoned well tragedies took place in California in April, 1949. It was early evening and Kathy Fiscus was playing in a field with her sister and a cousin when she fell into a 14 inch open water well casing. Show More Summary
AG, NRCS, GMD4 and Water
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last Friday a new pilot program administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Kansas and Colorado to remove sediments from ponds to help provide more water for livestock or for irrigation. Show More Summary
2013 Legislature To Deal With Water - Again
The Kansas Legislature will be dealing with water again this coming session. The good news is that none of their deliberations will be directly affecting water issues critical to our local groundwater management district - at least that we know about at this time. Show More Summary
Republican River Compact Proposal Heard
In a special meeting of the Republican River Compact Administration (RRCA) held telephonically on December 11, 2012, the three commissioners (Dick Wolfe, Colorado; Brian Dunnigan, Nebraska; and David Barfield, Kansas) considered an augmentation...Show More Summary
Seniority of Water Rights in Kansas
Kansas is a prior appropriation state as far as water law goes, which means basically that the first in time is the first in right. This system of water appropriation also means that every water right is in a seniority system. It isShow More Summary
Spate Irrigation? A New One On Me
Cruising the web I ran across the term "spate irrigation" and wondered what it was. Yes, there is a web site for this type of irrigation - which is essentially using flood flows beneficially in a desert (or near desert) environment.Show More Summary
$10.00's Best (Heaviest) Buy
I ran across a Reddit thread the other day that was discussing the query: "What's the heaviest thing I can buy for $10.00?"The ensuing discussion was quite entertaining with all the suggestions - from potatoes, to lead to sand. It even got more philosophical in the suggestion that $10.00 would easily buy you 218 square feet of land (at $2,000/acre). Show More Summary
Yet Another Ban on Fracking
The City of Longmont, Colorado, or rather the voters therein, just passed a ban on not only the use of hydraulic fracturing for the recovery of oil and gas within the city limits, but also on open storage pits and the disposal of solid or liquid wastes associated with oil and gas drilling and/or production. Show More Summary
Beware of the Kappa
Here we go again - another folklore venture into scary water creatures. This time it's Japan and the ever frightful Kappa. Translated as "river-child", the Kappa are quite similar to the Nakki of Finland, the Slavian Vodnik and the Scottish...Show More Summary
State's Second LEMA Hearing Set
The second hearing (required by law) for the state's first local enhanced management area (LEMA) has been set for November 28, 2012 in Hoxie, KS beginning at 10:30 A.M. For those who may not know, a LEMA is a pretty big deal in Kansas. Show More Summary
Wells of a Different Nature
When we speak of wells, most people immediately think of a water well, be it a windmill, an irrigation well of a domestic well. But there are other types of wells in use through the ingenuity of man. Many people don't realize that along...Show More Summary
More On The Work of Groundwater
Jewell Cave, South Dakota For us groundwater folks there is nothing more important than...groundwater. After all, in sheer volume, our under-the-earth resource dwarfs the amount of fresh water in all the lakes, rivers, streams, swales, bayous, creeks and whatever else holds fresh water on top of the land. Show More Summary
Thomas County Cat - August 20, 1885
Reading the early editions of the Thomas County Cat is really interesting. Virtually all the news articles are 1 paragraph blurbs distinguished from all the other news blurbs simply by a new paragraph indentation. For example, some page 1 news from the August 20, 1885 edition is presented as follows: Mrs. Show More Summary
New Groundwater Management System - China Style
WaterWired (AKA Michael Campana) just did a blog article on a new groundwater management system instituted in Qinxu, a County in Shanxi Province in China - called the Qinxu Groundwater System. His is a very good article, complete with a video spot from the Water Channel. Show More Summary
Another Interesting Property of Water
Water is a pretty fantastic material when you stop to think about it. Most of you know that it has some rather peculiar properties that other materials don't have - most notably that it expands just before freezing while just about everything else contracts as it cools. Show More Summary