With an increase in water rate usage and the previous summer’s drought, the Andover City Mayor, Ronnie Price, has made his voice clear: he no longer wants to buy water from Wichita for Andover residents. Mayor Price says he’d like to avoid future issues like these by connecting Andover to the El Dorado Lake, but is it sustainable? The City Manager of El Dorado, David Dillner, says yes. When looking at water sustainability and how much a lake has in its reservoir, the equation is much more than what meets the eye when looking at the lake from the outside. The lake itself is just the beginning. What is taken into consideration when projecting water sustainability is the water table, watershed, and other factors. The water depth at the lake dam is about 60 feet deep which is why the volume doesn’t move much.
Source: Andover American
