Bienville Parish, LA Water Table Trend
Bienville Parish, LA: what the water table is actually doing
Over 85 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Bienville Parish's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.1 ft per decade.
One well stands in for Bienville Parish's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 60.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1942-03-25 to 2026-09-14, 44 measurements from USGS well USGS-322019093124701 (Bi-12), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Bienville Parish ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Bienville Parish ranks 542nd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 12,412 people live in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bienville Parish stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Bienville Parish'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.