Bedford County, PA Water Table Trend
Bedford County, PA: what the water table is actually doing
Over 47 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Bedford County's aquifer is rising, getting shallower over time: 1.7 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Bedford County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 26.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1980-01-01 to 2026-08-10, 273 measurements from USGS well USGS-400217078281901 (Bd 150 Bedford County Observation Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Bedford County compares nationally
Bedford County sits at rank 152nd 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. Bedford County, Pennsylvania is home to about 47,643 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bedford 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 Bedford 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.