Colonial Heights city, VA Water Table Trend
Colonial Heights city's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Over 87 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Colonial Heights city's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.2 ft per decade.
One well stands in for Colonial Heights city's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 15.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1939-10-10 to 2026-09-04, 1164 measurements from USGS well USGS-371644077244601 (51g 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Colonial Heights city ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Colonial Heights city ranks 519th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 18,674 people live in Colonial Heights city, Virginia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Colonial Heights city stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Colonial Heights city'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.