NASA Study Shows Ground Sinking In California After Heavy Groundwater Use During Drought
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY (CBS13) — A new study was released this week by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA.
The Department of Water Resources asked them to monitor the subsidence of land in northern California over the past two years. This is because it came to fruition a couple of years ago that the groundwater pumping in the San Joaquin Valley has led to subsidence or sinking of land in the area.
The land has been subsiding there for years, but it hadn’t been until just a couple
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