Emanuel County, GA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Emanuel County, GA?
Emanuel County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 7.8 ft per decade over 59 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Emanuel County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 126.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1965-12-01 to 2024-08-19, 20 measurements from USGS well USGS-321946082154301 (27s001), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Emanuel County compares nationally
Emanuel County sits at rank 1365th 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. Emanuel County, Georgia is home to about 23,224 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Emanuel County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Emanuel County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Emanuel County, that trend is real, not assumed: 7.8 ft per decade over 59 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Emanuel 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.