Manitowoc County, WI Water Table Trend
Manitowoc County, WI: what the water table is actually doing
Manitowoc County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 55 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Manitowoc County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 24.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1968-06-27 to 2023-04-19, 1389 measurements from USGS well USGS-440430087420401 (Mn-19/23e/35-0028), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Manitowoc County compares nationally
Manitowoc County sits at rank 525th 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. Manitowoc County, Wisconsin is home to about 81,513 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Manitowoc 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 Manitowoc 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.