SPNRD board sees ground water model analysis review

At its monthly meeting, the South Platte Natural Resources District board of directors received an analysis review of the Western Water Use Management Model, commissioned to aid in determining the effects of actions on aquifers within the District.

The review was the second seen by the directors, who saw initial modeling results at a special meeting at the end of April. At that time, board members asked hydrogeologist Thad Kuntz, who developed the model, to run more specific information than that initially presented.

At the May board meeting Kuntz’s aquifer life analysis was based in response...