Androscoggin County, ME Water Table Trend
Androscoggin County, ME: what the water table is actually doing
Androscoggin County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 25 years of readings.
One well stands in for Androscoggin County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 10 ft below land surface. Readings span 2001-01-23 to 2026-06-25, 106 measurements from USGS well USGS-440213070203201 (Me-Anw1135 Poland, Maine), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Androscoggin County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Androscoggin County ranks 866th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 115,272 people live in Androscoggin County, Maine. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Androscoggin County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Androscoggin County'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.