The study by Stanford University researchers is the first to quantify the full extent of land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the world’s major farming regions, during the last two ...

Farmland near Corcoran in the southern San Joaquin Valley sank 13 inches in just eight months last year. To the north, near El Nido, the land surface dropped about 10 inches. Along a major canal ...

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 ...

A new study from UC Davis says land subsidence, or sinking ground, is speeding up in the Central Valley. ... Sinking land is a growing problem in the San Joaquin Valley. Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More pumping, locals say, worsens the region’s destructive land subsidence. ... He bought his first San Joaquin Valley parcel in 1994 when he invested in a foreclosed property in Kings County.

For decades, a costly problem has been worsening beneath California’s San Joaquin Valley: the land has been sinking, driven by the chronic overpumping of groundwater. As agricultural wells have ...