Telfair County, GA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Telfair County, GA?
Telfair County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.2 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 17 measurements since 1966.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Telfair County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 31 ft below land surface. Readings span 1966-05-05 to 2026-09-16, 17 measurements from USGS well USGS-314858082573901 (22n001), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Telfair County compares nationally
Telfair County sits at rank 829th 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. Telfair County, Georgia is home to about 11,000 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Telfair 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 Telfair 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.