Monroe County, PA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Monroe County, PA?
Monroe County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 60 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Monroe County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 12.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1967-01-01 to 2026-09-23, 252 measurements from USGS well USGS-411223075234901 (Mo 190 Monroe County Observation Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Monroe County compares nationally
Monroe County sits at rank 659th 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. Monroe County, Pennsylvania is home to about 166,523 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Monroe 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 Monroe 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.