Newport County, RI Water Table Trend
Newport County, RI: what the water table is actually doing
Newport County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 34 years of readings.
One well stands in for Newport County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 39.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1992-09-28 to 2026-09-29, 406 measurements from USGS well USGS-413325071152401 (Ri-Pow 551), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Newport County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Newport County ranks 950th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 83,468 people live in Newport County, Rhode Island. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Newport County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Newport County'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.