Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT Water Table
Is the water table dropping in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT?
Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 68 years of readings.
One well stands in for Southeastern 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 11.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1958-09-28 to 2026-08-26, 2721 measurements from USGS well USGS-412013072030602 (Ct- Gt 19r), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region ranks 605th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 282,602 people live in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Southeastern 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.