Considering recharge to groundwater from rainfall of 10%, out of 29 acre inches only 2.9 acre inches will enter the aquifer. One irrigation well extracts around 100 acre inches of groundwater.

Similarly, managed aquifer recharge projects have helped restore aquifer levels west of Tucson, Arizona. "Some of these cases indicate that aquifers that were heavily exploited before 1980 are ...

Last year, SWID pumped close to 5,000 acre-feet back into the aquifer. Water users will probably pump more this year now that energy rates are lower for recharge efforts, Higgs said.

In Gainesville, this aquifer recharge primarily occurs at Sweetwater Wetlands Park. GRU fills the swampy area with cleaned wastewater that can be absorbed back into the Floridan Aquifer.

Canterbury’s Central Plains Water will enjoy more public funding as it moves ahead with the second stage of its $400 million irrigation scheme. The government’s Irrigation Acceleration Fund will ...

The site should be able to handle up to 600 cfs when there is enough water in the system. Hipke expects 87,000 acre-feet of recharge at Milepost 31 by the start of the 2017 irrigation season.

An irrigation district director says recharging the aquifer may benefit the city of Othello, Wash., but probably wouldn't work for farmers, who are also dealing with dropping aquifer levels.

While aquifers do recharge over time -- the nation's water tables kept to a relatively constant level during the historically wet, cool years of the 1960s and 1970s -- that rate of recharge can't ...

Artificial recharge of aquifers is a proven method for conservation of groundwater resources. The use of open basins, stream channels, and spray irrigation with present technology is possible with a ...

An abundance of water is allowing the Idaho Water Resource Board to up its game on recharging the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer following last year’s record recharge. The board now […] ...

When the Ogallala Formation and its aquifer extended west to the Rockies during the Pleistocene epoch (1.6 million years ago to 10,000 years ago), natural recharge was large, and the water table ...