Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT Water Table Trend
Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT: what the water table is actually doing
Over 81 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Northwest Hills Planning Region's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0 ft per decade.
One well stands in for Northwest Hills Planning Region's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 25.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1946-04-01 to 2026-10-13, 1483 measurements from USGS well USGS-414615072581601 (Ct-Bu 2), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Northwest Hills Planning Region ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Northwest Hills Planning Region ranks 613th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 114,101 people live in Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Northwest Hills Planning Region stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Northwest Hills Planning Region'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.