The Kaweah subbasin is the second San Joaquin Valley region to successfully escape state intervention, managers learned today ...

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.

The Central Valley aquifer extends for about 400 miles under the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The subterranean water, some of which seeped into the ground 10,000 to 20,000 years ago ...

The Friant-Kern Canal in the San Joaquin Valley is sinking as parts of the San Joaquin Valley floor collapse because of subsidence, the result of excessive groundwater pumping during the drought.

In examining trends over decades in this part of the San Joaquin Valley, she said, “at no point in those 65 years did subsidence stop, even during the water level recovery period. It slowed, but ...

But the sinking San Joaquin dam has persuaded some to rethink that position, including Michael, the Los Banos grower whose great-great-grandfather Henry Miller pioneered ranching in the valley in ...

A new map made with satellite radar data shows the sinking of California’s San Joaquin Valley in deceptively tranquil colors. ... shows land subsidence between May 2015 and September 2016.

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 ...

Andrew Ayres, research fellow at PPIC, noted proactive management of dust and farmland can help support air quality improvements in the San Joaquin Valley. He presented a map of communities throughout ...

Today, drought, climate change and other forces have unleashed a new era of groundwater pumping, triggering some of the worst land subsidence ever seen in California. Near Michael’s farm, the ...