Aroostook County, ME Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Aroostook County, ME?
Aroostook County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.5 ft per decade, rising, getting shallower over time, based on 504 measurements since 1976.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Aroostook County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1976-11-19 to 2026-09-15, 504 measurements from USGS well USGS-471457068353001 (Me-Arw890 Fort Kent, Maine), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Aroostook County compares nationally
Aroostook County sits at rank 345th 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. Aroostook County, Maine is home to about 66,776 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Aroostook County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Aroostook County 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.