Chemical Quality of Irrigation Waters in Southwestern Kansas

Abstract

Two-hundred-sixty-four pumping irrigation wells were sampled in Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Morton, Stevens, Seward, Meade, and southern Gray counties and adjoining portions of Hamilton, Kearny, Finney and, northern Gray counties during July 1976. The general quality of these waters, with the exception of an area west of the Crooked Creek-Fowler fault complex in Meade County, places them in the medium to high salinity hazard and low alkali hazard ranges. Waters in the area west of the fault complex in Meade County are of a Na-Cl type and may fall in the medium to high alkali hazard range.