Palm Beach County, FL Water Table Trend
Palm Beach County, FL: what the water table is actually doing
Palm Beach County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 59 years of readings.
One well stands in for Palm Beach 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 5.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1961-01-02 to 2020-06-08, 269 measurements from USGS well USGS-264005080233501 (Pb - 99), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Palm Beach County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Palm Beach County ranks 497th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 1,582,055 people live in Palm Beach County, Florida. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Palm Beach County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Palm Beach 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.