Gaston County, NC Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Gaston County, NC?
Gaston County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.3 ft per decade over 18 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Gaston County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 48.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 2008-12-15 to 2026-10-05, 101 measurements from USGS well USGS-352012081154301 (Gs-289 Pasour Mtn Rs Regolith Well, Pm-25), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Gaston County compares nationally
Gaston County sits at rank 188th 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. Gaston County, North Carolina is home to about 242,010 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Gaston 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 Gaston 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.