East Carroll Parish, LA Water Table Trend
East Carroll Parish's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
East Carroll Parish's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.6 ft per decade over 71 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
East Carroll Parish's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 26.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1955-03-10 to 2026-08-11, 350 measurements from USGS well USGS-325100091132401 (Ec-89), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How East Carroll Parish compares nationally
East Carroll Parish sits at rank 975th of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. East Carroll Parish, Louisiana is home to about 6,892 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how East Carroll Parish stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in East Carroll Parish
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In East Carroll Parish, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.6 ft per decade over 71 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in East Carroll Parish can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.