Anchorage Municipality, AK Water Table Trend
Anchorage Municipality, AK: what the water table is actually doing
Over 40 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Anchorage Municipality's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.2 ft per decade.
One well stands in for Anchorage Municipality's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 109.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1986-08-09 to 2026-08-04, 200 measurements from USGS well USGS-611725149335401 (Sb01400223bccd1 003 Kb-6), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Anchorage Municipality ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Anchorage Municipality ranks 491st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 289,600 people live in Anchorage Municipality, Alaska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Anchorage Municipality stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Anchorage Municipality's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.