Bamberg County, SC Water Table Trend
Bamberg County, SC: what the water table is actually doing
Bamberg County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.2 ft per decade over 27 years of readings.
One well stands in for Bamberg 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 15 ft below land surface. Readings span 1997-07-11 to 2024-09-19, 11 measurements from USGS well USGS-331043081022101 (Bam- 79), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Bamberg County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Bamberg County ranks 222nd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 12,870 people live in Bamberg County, South Carolina. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bamberg County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Bamberg 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.