Ponce Municipio, PR Water Table Trend
Ponce Municipio's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Ponce Municipio's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.2 ft per decade over 95 years of readings.
One well stands in for Ponce Municipio's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 9.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1931-06-18 to 2026-07-07, 236 measurements from USGS well USGS-175934066364800 (Constancia 3 Well, Ponce, Pr), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Ponce Municipio ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Ponce Municipio ranks 219th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 0 people live in Ponce Municipio, . See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Ponce Municipio stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Ponce Municipio'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.