Pueblo County, CO Water Table Trend
Pueblo County, CO: what the water table is actually doing
Over 89 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Pueblo County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.1 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Pueblo County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 17.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1929-08-20 to 2018-11-19, 121 measurements from USGS well USGS-381340104205601 (Sc02106209ccc), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Pueblo County compares nationally
Pueblo County sits at rank 771st 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. Pueblo County, Colorado is home to about 169,866 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Pueblo County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Pueblo County 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.