Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT?
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 60 years of readings.
One well stands in for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 7.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1966-09-26 to 2026-09-28, 804 measurements from USGS well USGS-411256073153101 (Ct-Ff 23), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Greater Bridgeport Planning Region ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region ranks 623rd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 335,666 people live in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Greater Bridgeport Planning Region stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Greater Bridgeport Planning Region'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.