Helpful Links

• Northwest Kansas GMD No. 4 website includes district overview, GMD meetings, GMD rules, enhanced management plan, newsletters and water level data.
• Revised GMD No. 4 Management Program
• GMD 4 District-Wide LEMA
• Sheridan County 6 LEMA

Resources

Northwest Kansas GMD 4

• Formed: March 1, 1976
• Office location: Colby, KS
• Counties/partial counties: Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Graham, Wallace, Logan, Gove
• Boundary changes: none
• Square miles: 4,874 (2017 GIS data)
• Acres: 3,119,094 (2017 GIS data)
• Irrigated acres: 388,894 (WRIS 2011-2015 average)
• Authorized acres: 602,395 (WRIS 2017)
• Wells: 4,140 groundwater points of diversion (WRIS 2017)
• Average precipitation: 17 to 25 inches/year (1981-2012 normals)
• Reported water use: 451,314 AFY total (441,624 AFY irrigation, 98% of total) (WRIS 2011-2015 average)

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