It was a bummer to find out the water table receded to about 17' after many years of "don't poke a stick in the ground or it might just squirt you in the eye". I have an idea of what caused the change.
Someone using a lot of water in your area in conjunction with the drought?
John Nelski said his aquifer is actually higher by a foot or two due to the Great Lakes being up.
If you cross the street and go about 500 feet or so south. It slopes down, maybe 150-200 feet to the Muskegon River.
Just over two years ago there was some excavation on this slope to terrace it off for building. You could see a stream of ground water flowing. It washed out the road they built pretty bad. They quit digging after that. Never built anything and made a big mess.
What I was able to find out is that our ground water natural drain is where they were digging.
It's been dry as a bone since then. Only a couple feet of ground water about 17' then it's 175 or so feet of clay till you hit water again.
People with full basements are really happy!!! My dad's sump pumps haven't run since then.
