Vieques Municipio, PR Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Vieques Municipio, PR?
Vieques Municipio's long-term well puts the trend at 0.6 ft per decade, declining, slower than most declining counties, based on 83 measurements since 1992.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Vieques Municipio's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 7.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1992-04-03 to 2026-10-21, 83 measurements from USGS well USGS-180621065274902 (Vieques P2b Well, Vieques, Pr), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Vieques Municipio compares nationally
Vieques Municipio sits at rank 976th 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. Vieques Municipio, is home to about 0 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Vieques Municipio stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Vieques Municipio
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Vieques Municipio, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.6 ft per decade over 35 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Vieques Municipio 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.