WaterTableCheck

Lee County, NC Water Table Trend

What the closest monitoring well shows for Lee County

Rising (getting shallower)
3.5ft/decade

Moore County, NC, 21 miles from Lee County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.

No well inside Lee County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Lee County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Moore County, NC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.

About Lee County

Lee County, North Carolina covers 255 square miles and is home to about 68,537 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Lee County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.