Table 3. Computed average daily and total annual discharge from the Edwards aquifer by county and by water use, 1997 [Totals might not equal sums of components due to rounding. --, data to estimate irrigation discharge not available; footnotes denoted by *, #]
Municipal Domestic Total Total
Springs supply and Irrigation Industrial supply, stock, and (million (thousand
County military use use miscellaneous use* gallons acre-feet
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ per year) per year)
(million gallons per day)
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Kinney 0 0.9 0.5 0 0.3 634.6 1.9
Uvalde 18.2 4.4 -- .5 1.8 #9,112 #28.0
Medina 0 5.6 -- 0 .7 #2,282 #7.0
Bexar 3.4 201.0 -- 16.3 7.2 #83,180 #255.3
Comal 199.6 3.7 .2 13.4 .2 79,270 243.3
Hays 121.6 10.4 .1 .5 .6 48,610 149.2
Total (million gallons per year) 125,100 82,520 #292.0 11,230 3,931 #223,100
Total (thousand acre-feet per year) 384.0 253.2 #.9 34.5 12.1 #684.7
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* Includes pumpage from private schools, country clubs,
parks, flowing wells, and cemeteries.
# Excludes irrigation discharge for Bexar, Medina, and Uvalde Counties.