Acadia Parish, LA Water Table Trend
Acadia Parish, LA: what the water table is actually doing
Acadia Parish's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 7.6 ft per decade over 87 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Acadia Parish's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 114.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1939-02-15 to 2026-05-26, 52 measurements from USGS well USGS-302511092242601 (Ac-24), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Acadia Parish compares nationally
Acadia Parish sits at rank 1361st of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. Acadia Parish, Louisiana is home to about 56,604 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Acadia Parish stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Acadia Parish
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Acadia Parish, that trend is real, not assumed: 7.6 ft per decade over 87 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Acadia Parish can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.