Venango County, PA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Venango County, PA?
Venango County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.7 ft per decade over 25 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Venango County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 113.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 2001-06-06 to 2026-10-15, 189 measurements from USGS well USGS-411958079540202 (Ve 57 Venango County Observation Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Venango County compares nationally
Venango County sits at rank 1014th 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. Venango County, Pennsylvania is home to about 49,476 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Venango County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Venango County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Venango County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.7 ft per decade over 25 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Venango 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.