Bergen County, NJ Water Table Trend
Bergen County, NJ: what the water table is actually doing
Bergen County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.8 ft per decade over 37 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Bergen County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 3.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1989-07-13 to 2026-08-18, 162 measurements from USGS well USGS-410155074060201 (030289-- Saddle River 17 Obs), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Bergen County compares nationally
Bergen County sits at rank 1025th 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. Bergen County, New Jersey is home to about 978,641 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bergen County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Bergen County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Bergen County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.8 ft per decade over 37 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Bergen 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.