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The Friant-Kern Canal and the Delta-Mendota Canal are two of four projects that are being considered for repaired from subsidence damages. For example, Senate Bill 559 sought to provide over $400 million in funds to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. However, Governor Newsom vetoed the bill in search of broader state-wide solutions to subsidence ...
When groundwater is extracted from an aquifer, a cone of depression is created around the well.As the drafting of water continues, the cone increases in radius. Extracting too much water (overdrafting) can lead to negative impacts such as a drop of the water table, land subsidence, and loss of surface water reaching the streams.
The oak grove sits at the base of California Memorial Stadium and at the time of the controversy consisted of about 90 trees: 65 oaks, including 38 coast live oaks, 25 pittosporum, 8 redwoods, 5 pines and 1 or 2 cypress, cedar, pepper and yew trees. [7]
The survey counted over 36 million dead trees, which is a dramatic increase, but there still may be more that were not counted. In a dramatic spike, 36.3 million trees died in California last year ...
Several majestic palm trees that usually flank the Refugio State Beach just north of Santa Barbara have come crashing down in recent days. Images show how the massive, 100-year-old trees were ...
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In 1972, the California Department of Public Health commended the city of Fresno for its efforts to mitigate nitrates in the groundwater supply. [7] However, in 2001, Fresno earned a grade of poor for water quality and compliance from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. [8]
In the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma, the Smokehouse Creek fire in February 2024 was the largest in state history. It killed two people, burned more than 1.2 million acres and destroyed ...