Carolina Municipio, PR Water Table Trend
Carolina Municipio, PR: what the water table is actually doing
Carolina Municipio's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 38 years of readings.
One well stands in for Carolina Municipio's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 5.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1986-01-21 to 2024-05-01, 350 measurements from USGS well USGS-182515065594100 (Piezometer Campo Rico 1, Carolina, Pr), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Carolina Municipio ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Carolina Municipio ranks 528th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 0 people live in Carolina Municipio, . See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Carolina Municipio stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Carolina Municipio'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.