Mayagüez Municipio, PR Water Table Trend
Mayagüez Municipio, PR: what the water table is actually doing
Mayagüez Municipio's long-term well puts the trend at 0.2 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 105 measurements since 2011.
One well stands in for Mayagüez Municipio's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 5.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 2011-04-28 to 2026-08-28, 105 measurements from USGS well USGS-181301067081900 (Ce-Rum2 Observation Well, Mayaguez Campus, Pr), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Mayagüez Municipio ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Mayagüez Municipio ranks 800th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 0 people live in Mayagüez Municipio, . See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Mayagüez Municipio stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Mayagüez Municipio'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.