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Water district begins annual water-level measurements
Beginning Jan. 2, 2020, Hemphill County Underground Water Conservation District personnel will start water-level measurements to determine the effect of 2019 pumping on groundwater levels in the Ogallala aquifer within the district.
These annual measurements are made in a network of 99 privately-owned wells. The observation wells are spaced throughout the county, and were selected based on…