Peñuelas Municipio, PR Water Table Trend
Peñuelas Municipio's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Peñuelas Municipio's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 2.3 ft per decade over 61 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Peñuelas Municipio's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 28.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1965-05-30 to 2026-10-21, 261 measurements from USGS well USGS-180156066434000 (Lve Well, Penuelas, Pr), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Peñuelas Municipio compares nationally
Peñuelas Municipio sits at rank 1203rd 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. Peñuelas Municipio, is home to about 0 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Peñuelas Municipio stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Peñuelas Municipio
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Peñuelas Municipio, that trend is real, not assumed: 2.3 ft per decade over 61 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Peñuelas Municipio 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.