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SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SINKS IN DROUGHTS
As groundwater pumping increases subsidence creates major damage
subsidence
Photos courtesy United States Geological Survey USGS photos taken just south of Merced in December 2017 show how land has dropped 8.6 feet between 1965 and 2016. The rate of subsidence was even greater from 1988 to 2016 when 6.2 feet of the loss in elevation occurred.
Corcoran is the proverbial canary in the mine when it comes to the invisible damage the current drought is likely to inflect.