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This web site has been created in support of the Kansas Geological Survey's Stream-Aquifer Interactions Projects. For information on this project, please contact Andrea Brookfield or Jim Butler, project investigators.

Continuous Stream-Aquifer Water Level Measurements

Arkansas River

• Larned, KS: http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/geohydro/wizard/wizardwelldetail_wl_con_stream.cfm?usgs_id=381213098595501
• Great Bend, KS: http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/geohydro/wizard/wizardwelldetail_wl_con_stream.cfm?usgs_id=382113098455101
• Nickerson, KS: http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/geohydro/wizard/wizardwelldetail_wl_con_stream.cfm?usgs_id=380842098063701

Major Publications

• Butler, J.J., Jr., and M.-S. Tsou, 2003, Pumping-induced leakage in a bounded aquifer: An example of a scale-invariant phenomenon: Water Resour. Res., v. 39, no. 12, doi:10.1029/2002WR001484, 2003. (this discusses stream depletion in the vicinity of a dam)
• Butler, J.J., Jr., X. Zhan, and V.A. Zlotnik, 2007, Pumping-induced drawdown and stream depletion in a leaky aquifer system: Groundwater, v. 45, no. 2, pp. 178-186, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00272.x
• Butler, J.J., Jr., Zlotnik, V.A., and Tsou, M.-S., Drawdown and stream depletion produced by pumping in the vicinity of a partially penetrating stream, Ground Water, v. 39, no. 5, p. 651-659. (Abstract)

Background Reports

Mathematical Derivations of Semianalytical Solutions for Pumping-Induced Drawdown and Stream Depletion in a Leaky Aquifer System by Xiaoyong Zhan and James J. Butler, Jr.

Mathematical Derivations of Expressions for the Total Pumping-Induced Leakage Entering an Aquifer by James J. Butler, Jr.

Evaluation of Stream Depletion Considering Finite Stream Width, Shallow Penetration, and Properties of Streambed Sediments by Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Huihua Huang, and James J. Butler, Jr.

Mathematical Derivation of Drawdown and Stream Depletion Produced by Pumping in the Vicinity of a Finite-Width Stream of Shallow Penetration by James J. Butler, Jr., and Ming-Shu Tsou

Computer Software

The StrpStrm model for calculation of pumping-induced drawdown and stream depletion--An executable program to download and sample data.

Kansas Geological Survey, Stream-Aqufer Interactions Project
Last update June 24, 2015
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