• GMD 5 Revises Management Program. Big Bend Groundwater Management District No. 5‘s revised management program was approved by the chief engineer on January 2, 2019. A public hearing was held on the management program on February 21, 2019, and the board adopted the revised management program on March 14, 2019. It can be found on GMD 5’s site here.

• Memorandum of Understanding between Chief Engineer and GMD No. 5 regarding augmentation on Rattlesnake Creek

• Delegation of authority to seal water flowmeter

• GMD No. 5 requested delegation of authority to seal water flowmeters.

• Groundwater Management District No. 5

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Big Bend GMD 5

• Formed: 1976
• Office location: Stafford (originally in St. John)
• Counties/partial counties: Barton, Rice, Pawnee, Stafford, Reno, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt
• Boundary changes: District expanded February 3, 1988 adding 14 square miles in Rice County
• Square miles: 3,907 (2017 GIS data)
• Acres: 2,524,000 (1976 management program); 2,500,623 (2017 GIS data)
• Irrigated acres: 458,849  (WRIS 2011-2015 average)
• Authorized acres: 619,890 (WRIS 2017)
• Wells: 5,831 groundwater points of diversion (WRIS 2017)
• Average precipitation: 20 to 27 inches/year (1976 management program); 23 to 30 inches/year (1981-2012 normals)
• Reported water use: 300,000+ AFY (1976 management program); 549,059 AFY total (528,087AFY irrigation, 96% of total) (WRIS 2011-2015 average)