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The Kaweah subbasin is the second San Joaquin Valley region to successfully escape state intervention, managers learned today ...
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An estimated 500,000 acres — a fifth of the San Joaquin Valley’s farmland — may need to be taken out of cultivation by 2040 to stabilize the region’s aquifers, it says.
During the extreme drought of 2020-22, when State Water Project allocations dropped to 5% of the contracted amounts, subsidence accelerated in the Central Valley in the same way it did during the ...
STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- With views stretching off to the horizon, it's hard to visualize the San Joaquin Valley sinking--unless, of course, you have a measuring stick about the size of a ...
In a 1999 report, USGS researchers described the land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley as “the single largest human alteration of the Earth's surface topography.” ...
In a 1999 report, USGS researchers described the land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley as “the single largest human alteration of the Earth’s surface topography.” ...
A new Stanford study has found parts of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk nearly 1 inch per year from 2006 to 2022, and much of the subsidence can't be reversed. Much of the subsidence occurred ...
California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch per year due to the over-pumping of groundwater supplies, with resource extraction outpacing natural recharge, a new study has found ...
Temporal coverage of InSAR data, and the subsidence patterns they reveal, in the San Joaquin Valley. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01778-w ...