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This is not the register
This is an independent copy, not the register. The Survey recommends that its data be taken directly from a KGS server rather than through another site that may have changed it — for anything a transaction depends on, use theirs.
For an official answer, use the Survey's own tools.
What the figures are
These are interpolated surfaces, not readings at a point. The Survey builds them from measured wells; a figure for one section is an estimate for that square mile, not a measurement of any particular well on it.
659 sections read exactly 0.0 ft before development and 1,309 read exactly 0.0 ft today — against five occurrences for the next most common value, and not one negative figure anywhere in the file. A continuous surface does not land on the same number 659 times by chance: it is floored at ground level and cannot express a water table standing above the ground. Where either figure is 0.0, the change shown is a floor, not an exact amount, and this site marks it « at least ».
This surface covers the High Plains aquifer — western and central Kansas. Eastern Kansas is almost entirely absent (69 sections out of 33,190), and that is not a gap in the data: the aquifer does not extend there. A section with no figure here is not a section with no water.
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This site is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.
You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's eligibility for:
- employment, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- credit or insurance underwriting;
- housing or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.
Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.
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We copy a public file and we can copy it wrong. Nothing here is advice on a water right, a purchase, a loan or a well. Check anything that matters against the Survey and against the Division of Water Resources.