Sarpy County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Sarpy County, NE?
Sarpy County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 47 years of readings.
One well stands in for Sarpy County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 10.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1978-05-05 to 2025-04-17, 81 measurements from USGS well USGS-410228096083501 (12n 11e02adb 1 (P-022c)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Sarpy County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Sarpy County ranks 665th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 204,828 people live in Sarpy County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sarpy County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Sarpy County'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.