South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT Water Table
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT: what the water table is actually doing
South Central Connecticut Planning Region's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 51 years of readings.
One well stands in for South Central Connecticut Planning Region's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 15 ft below land surface. Readings span 1975-09-22 to 2026-09-28, 670 measurements from USGS well USGS-412307072515201 (Ct-Nhv 201), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where South Central Connecticut Planning Region ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, South Central Connecticut Planning Region ranks 679th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 576,718 people live in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how South Central Connecticut Planning Region stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether South Central Connecticut Planning Region'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.