Colbert County, AL Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Colbert County, AL?
Colbert County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 2.2 ft per decade over 26 years of readings.
One well stands in for Colbert 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 10.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 2000-01-06 to 2026-03-23, 17 measurements from USGS well USGS-344036087320901 (Ehr-Lus28), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Colbert County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Colbert County ranks 116th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 58,785 people live in Colbert County, Alabama. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Colbert County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Colbert 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.