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Even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago to curb excessive agricultural pumping of groundwater, new research predicts that thousands of drinking water wells could ...
The bulk of the wells drying up in Central California, so far, are in the Fresno and Madera areas, according to an analysis. Extreme heat straining water wells in Fresno, Madera counties. ‘Not a ...
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As California's drought deepens, Elaine Moore’s family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water. Two of her adult children are now getting water from a new well the family ...
The depth of the dry well allows the water to penetrate soil layers with poor infiltration such as clays into more permeable layers of the vadose zone such as sand. [7] [8] Simple dry wells consist of a pit filled with gravel, riprap, rubble, or other debris. Such pits resist collapse but do not have much storage capacity because their interior ...
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Lake Corcoran (also known as Lake Clyde, after Clyde Wahrhaftig, an American geologist [1]) was an ancient lake that covered the Central Valley of California. Central Valley map The lake existed in the valleys of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River , [ 2 ] at least as far north as the Sutter Buttes . [ 3 ]
California water officials backed a bill to impose restrictions on where wells can be drilled, seeking to protect drinking water sources. Lawmakers rejected it.