Bertie County, NC Water Table Trend
Bertie County, NC: what the water table is actually doing
Bertie County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 26 years of readings.
One well stands in for Bertie 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 7.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1994-10-20 to 2020-07-15, 107 measurements from USGS well USGS-361420077111407 (Be-080 Nc-154 Roxobel Rs Surficial), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Bertie County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Bertie County ranks 804th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 16,939 people live in Bertie County, North Carolina. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bertie County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Bertie 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.