California is sinking – and fast
Thanks to prolific groundwater pumping amid California’s crippling drought, the state is sinking at historic speeds. New details highlight just how severe the sinking has become and how little government has done to monitor it.
The above photo shows how dramatically has sunk in the past. In the pic, Joseph Poland of the U.S. Geological Survey used a utility pole to document where a farmer would have been standing in 1925, 1955 and where Poland was then standing in 1977 after land in the San Joaquin Valley had sunk nearly 30 feet.
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