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Several water districts opposed the legislation, including Indian Wells Valley Water District, Searles Valley Minerals, Inc., Sierra Shadows Ranch, Meadowbrook Dairy, and Mojave Pistachios, LLC.
Indian Wells Valley is traversed by California State Route 14, California State Route 178, and US Highway 395. The valley varies in elevation from as low as 2,150 feet to as high as 2,400 feet. [ 2 ] China Lake, a perennial lake and namesake for the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and unincorporated community China Lake , is located in the ...
Plans to build a $200-million water pipeline across the Mojave Desert to supply the city of Ridgecrest are angering environmentalists, farmers and miners.
Mojave Pistachios LLC recently lost a case over pumping fees of $2,130 per acre foot in the Indian Wells Valley in eastern Kern County. On June 14, the company was ordered to pay $30 million in ...
Prior to SGMA, groundwater use was under-regulated to a point where many areas of the state faced major depletion, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley and other groundwater basins on the central coast and southern California that have been designated by the State's Department of Water Resources (DWR) as being critically overdrafted. [4]
San Joaquin Valley surface change. The arid areas of the world are requiring more and more water for growing populations and agriculture. In the San Joaquin Valley of the United States, groundwater pumping for crops has gone on for generations. This has resulted in the entire valley sinking an extraordinary amount, as shown in the figure. [4]
California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb overpumping that is depleting groundwater, causing the ...
Over half of the U.S. population relies on groundwater for drinking water [1] However, residential, municipal, commercial, industrial, and agricultural activities can all contaminate groundwater. [2]: C-2 In the event of contamination, a community's drinking water supply can develop poor quality or be lost altogether. Groundwater contamination ...