Ground Water Resources of the Area Southwest of Amarillo, Texas.

摘要

The present public water supply of the City of Amarillo, all of which is obtained from wells, is not adequate to take care of the needs of the city during periods of peak demand. To meet this situation and to provide for still greater needs in the future the city is planning to explore new territory for an additional supply of ground water. In this connection the Texas State Board of &ter Engineers and the Geological Survey, U, S. Department of the Interior, have been requested by the city autliorities to investigate the ground-water resources in an area of several hundred square miles in northwestern Randall County and adjacent territory in Potter, Oldham, and Deaf Smith Counties (see map). This report is based in part on studies made in the spring and summer of 1946, in response to the city's request, and in part on data collected by the Board of Water Engineers and the Geological Survey in 1937 and 1942. It contains records of 239 wells, of which 27 are used by the city of Amarillo, 72 for irrigation, 3 for industrial purposes, 83 principally for domestic purposes and stock, 28 are not used, and 26 were drilled as test wells. It also includes drillers' logs of 45 wells, chemical analyses of water from 45 wells, measured or estimatod yields of the more productive wells, records of pumpago by the city of Amarillo from 1928 to 1944, and depth to water in most of the wells.