Saline County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Saline County, NE?
Over 66 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Saline County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.3 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Saline County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 104.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1959-10-31 to 2025-04-15, 2745 measurements from USGS well USGS-403855097072501 (8n 3e19ada 1 Dorchest), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Saline County compares nationally
Saline County sits at rank 876th 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. Saline County, Nebraska is home to about 14,740 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Saline 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 Saline 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.