Brooks County, GA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Brooks County, GA?
Brooks County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.3 ft per decade over 78 years of readings.
One well stands in for Brooks 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 123.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1942-04-28 to 2020-09-11, 47 measurements from USGS well USGS-304033083310401 (17d007), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Brooks County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Brooks County ranks 196th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 16,344 people live in Brooks County, Georgia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Brooks County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Brooks 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.