Conservation,
Protection,

improvement

Of water resources in West-Central Kansas

View your Wichita County LEMA remaining allocation.

This value reflects remaining allocation for 2024 and 2025. Since 2024 water use is still being verified by DWR per the March 1, 2025 deadline, please subtract your 2024 water use from this total to view your actual 2025 remaining allocation. 

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Our Mission

Across five counties and 1,118,200 acres, there are 2,805 permitted groundwater wells within the district pumping Ogallala aquifer water. The average annual usage has been approximately 300,000 acre-feet per year. Based on the amount of water in storage as well as the annual recharge, without any intervention, there is approximately 20 years of pumping left.
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What We Do

Here at GMD1 we strive to provide community driven programs and policies that protect the local economy and enhance groundwater conservation.

Compliance
& Overpumping
Programs

Waste Control
& Water Use
Reporting

Water
Metering
Programs

Weather
Modification
Programs

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Monthly Highlight

NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING: The Second Four County LEMA Public Hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. central time on February 2nd, 2023 at the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center, 212 E. 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas.

The chief engineer has also scheduled a prehearing conference to take place prior to the hearing. The prehearing conference will be held virtually via Zoom at 10:00 a.m. central time on January 18, 2023.

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Contact Us

  • 906 W. 5th
    P.O. Box 604
    Scott City, KS 67871

    Line 1: (620) 872-5563

    Line 2: (620) 872-7375

Who we are

What we do

  • Metering Program
  • Tailwater and Waste Program
  • Water Use Reporting
  • Compliance Checks
  • Water Level Measurements
  • Weather Modification

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