Passaic County, NJ Water Table Trend
Passaic County, NJ: what the water table is actually doing
Passaic County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 22 years of readings.
One well stands in for Passaic 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 10.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 2003-10-17 to 2025-05-07, 8 measurements from USGS well USGS-405632074131801 (310199-- Mw142), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Passaic County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Passaic County ranks 735th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 526,597 people live in Passaic County, New Jersey. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Passaic County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Passaic 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.