El Paso County, CO Water Table Trend
El Paso County, CO: what the water table is actually doing
Over 66 years of USGS readings, the well tracking El Paso County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.2 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
El Paso County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 36.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1953-03-17 to 2018-10-02, 103 measurements from USGS well USGS-383952104405601 (Sc01606517aaa1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How El Paso County compares nationally
El Paso County sits at rank 833rd 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. El Paso County, Colorado is home to about 752,772 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how El Paso County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in El Paso County 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.