Caledonia County, VT Water Table Trend
Caledonia County, VT: what the water table is actually doing
Caledonia County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 35 years of readings.
One well stands in for Caledonia 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 9.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1991-10-30 to 2026-07-15, 475 measurements from USGS well USGS-442937072093402 (Vt-Wbw 36), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Caledonia County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Caledonia County ranks 879th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 30,535 people live in Caledonia County, Vermont. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Caledonia County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Caledonia 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.