WaterTableCheck

Buena Vista County, IA Water Table Trend

The nearest real water-table reading to Buena Vista County, IA

Declining, slower than most declining counties
0.8ft/decade

Crawford County, IA, 50 miles from Buena Vista County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining, slower than most declining counties.

No well inside Buena Vista County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Buena Vista County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Crawford County, IA's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.

About Buena Vista County

Buena Vista County, Iowa covers 575 square miles and is home to about 20,816 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Buena Vista County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.