Multiyear drought has reduced groundwater levels in the Great Plains, but a geologist says the world’s largest aquifer is plentiful.
Data from the University of Nebraska shows three-quarters of the observation wells experienced significant declines from spring of 2021 through 2022.
Geologist Aaron Young tells Brownfield year-to-year variations of the Ogallala Aquifer are normal. “But over most of Nebraska, we haven’t really seen very significant declines like anything on the scale of Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.