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Service Description: The digital coverage of the glacial drift aquifers was initially derived from "Map Showing Glacial Drift Aquifers in North Dakota and Estimated Potential Yields, 1986" and modified reflecting new data collected over the last 20+ years. It is primarily the estimated boundaries of the major glacial-drift aquifers initially described in the county ground-water studies produced by the US Geological Survey in cooperation with the North Dakota State Water Commission and the North Dakota Geological Survey. New updates were developed by the Appropriations division staff of the North Dakota State Water Commission. These aquifers are considered to have the greatest potential for yielding significant quantities of water for municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes. They underlie an area of about 8,900 square miles. It is estimated that about 66 million acre-feet of water is stored in these aquifers. As a comparison, Lake Sakakawea behind Garrison Dam contains approximately 24 million acre-feet of water when full.

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Max Record Count: 2000

Supported query Formats: JSON

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Update - 1/29/2025 - Boundary extent changes to the Yellowstone Buried Channel Aquifer

Update - 3/20/2020 - Updated boundaries of the Sanish Aquifer in southern Mountrail County

Update - 2/1/2019 - Added the Cattail Aquifer which overlays the Winona Aquifer in southwest Emmons County. Also edited and updated the Winona Aquifer boundaries

Update - 8/31/2017 - Added the Tiffany Flats Aquifer overlying the New Rockford Aquifer in Eddy County

Update - 8/22/2017 - Named several previously unnamed aquifers: Austin, Bicker, Clayton, Clearwater, Cleary, Crane Creek, Edgemont, Foothills, Foothills South, Lucy, McClusky, Roosevelt, Shealy, Stoneview, and Tolgen North

Update - 1/13/2017 - Boundary extent changes to the Cut Bank Creek and Lake Souris aquifers in McHenry County. Rename of the Cut Bank Creek aquifer in Renville / Bottineau counties to Mohall aquifer, and creation of a new aquifer in southern Barnes County called Little Stoney Aquifer

Update - 8/5/16 - Boundary extent changes to the Streeter aquifer. Also named previously unnamed aquifers in Benson County: Fillmore, Big Coulee and Oberon

Update - 12/14/15 - Boundary extent changes to the Napoleon aquifer

Update - 12/11/15 - Boundary extent changes to the Munich and Napoleon aquifers

Update - 12/4/15 - Boundary extent changes to the Inkster, Esmond, and McVille aquifers.

Update - 08/27/15 - Boundary extent changes to the Pony Gulch aquifer

Update - 7/15/13 - White Shield aquifer portion in Mountrail County was renamed to Sanish Aquifer based on the following report - Water Resources of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, West-Central North Dakota,Cates Steven W. and Macek-Rowland,Kathleen M.,Department of the Interior,U.S. Geological Survey,Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4098, Bismarck, North Dakota 1998

Updates - 4/30/13 - Boundary extent changes to the Killdeer and Horse Nose Butte aquifers along with the addition of the Lake Ilo aquiferUpdates - 4/23/13 - Typos corrected on the Spiritwood-Stutsman and Spiritwood-Grand Rapids names

Updates - 08/08/12 - Several boundary extent changes were made to the Shell Creek-White Earth, Shell Creek-Central, and Shell Creek-East Branch aquifers (north and east of Stanley, Mountrail County). In addition, significant boundary changes were also made to the Rosefield and Carrington aquifers (north of Carrington, Foster/Wells counties)

Update - 04/10/12 - Two aquifers were named; the Zap Aquifer which is underneath the cities of Zap and Golden Valley, and the Otter Creek Aquifer which is approximately 12 miles southeast of the Zap Aquifer

Update - 01/10/2011 - Boundaries on the Central Dakota Aquifer were updated



Copyright Text: North Dakota Department of Water Resources

Spatial Reference: 102100 (3857)

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