Many people in the San Joaquin Valley have seen the ominous photo: It depicts a person standing next to a telephone pole that bears a series of signs labeled with years. Way at the top of the pole is ...
A well on land owned by the J.G. Boswell Co. in the Tulare Lake subbasin gushes groundwater into a standpipe in this 2021 photo. In 2024, the state’s water board put the groundwater basin on probation ...