MAJOR AQUIFERS
Approximate
Saturated Thickness
Ogallala Aquifer
2000
Water from the Ogallala aquifer is of excellent quality
with low chloride content. It has no organic contaminants.
| Water
Use by User Types – OCHILTREE COUNTY |
| |
1996 – ALL USEAGE IN ACRE-FEET
|
| |
SURFACE WATER
|
GROUND WATER
|
TOTAL WATER USED-1996
|
|
Municipal (total)
|
|
|
2,012
|
|
Booker (part)
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
Perryton
|
|
1,820
|
1,820
|
|
Muni – Other
|
|
190
|
190
|
|
Manufacturing
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
Power Generation
|
|
|
|
|
Mining
|
|
201
|
201
|
|
Irrigation
|
|
85,237
|
85,237
|
|
Livestock
|
2,183
|
243
|
2,426
|
|
Total
|
2,183
|
87,694
|
89,877
|
|
| Source – Texas Water Development
Board |
One
acre-foot = 325,851 gallons |
|
