Twenty years of well logs show the valley’s water table falling a foot a year

The Record digitised every spring measurement the watermaster has taken since 2006. Here is what they show, well by well.

[1]Of the 41 wells the county measures every April, 33 hit their lowest spring level on record this year.

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Sources

  1. [1] Alder County groundwater summary, 2026

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