Santa Clara County, CA Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County, CA, 23 miles from Santa Clara County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining faster than most declining counties.
No well inside Santa Clara County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Santa Clara County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Santa Cruz County, CA's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
About Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County, California covers 1,291 square miles and is home to about 1,926,325 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Santa Clara County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.