Augusta County, VA Water Table Trend
Augusta County, VA: what the water table is actually doing
Augusta County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.4 ft per decade over 62 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Augusta County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 21 ft below land surface. Readings span 1964-07-24 to 2026-07-16, 2547 measurements from USGS well USGS-382523078535501 (38p 1 Sow 070), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Augusta County compares nationally
Augusta County sits at rank 379th 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. Augusta County, Virginia is home to about 78,622 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Augusta 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 Augusta 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.