Replacement Central Valley irrigation canal threatened by groundwater pumping 

Good for the state to finally start holding land owners accountable for drawing down too much water.

And let's also not forget that once the earth sinks and the sub surface compresses it will never hold groundwater in the manner in which it used to because you cannot uncompress the sub surface. It is a massive double whammy.

It will be interesting to see if any Fresno or Bakersfield TV stations will show this. Over here farmers have LOTS of political clout.

This is a deeply disturbing development. It's also a phenomenal piece of news journalism. Outstanding piece of work.

The state needs to be better. It could grant the City of Visalia millions to build its Eastside Regional Park with its attached water recharge project, saving them tens of millions in subsidence costs. The state also needs to cut and fund suitable projects. Also, no well in Tulare county should be deeper than 150 feet.

So we’re not gonna talk about using less water across the board and just re-do the system that has failed multiple times before… sounds like a brilliant & cost efficient solution

My old USGS employee Geology teacher said over drilling for water causes a CONE OF SUBSIDENCE.

Why don't they just raise the banks of the old canal? The water would fill the deeper canal.

Major sustainability issues given the massive scale of agriculture in central valley. Unless something changes this will continue to get worse.

WTF did they expect would happen? Definition of insanity.

Do you understand what you need is wet land in central valley California Tulare lake will work better

1. Set sustainable water pumping limits for each sub-basin. 2. Acreage limitation rules that protect smaller farmers . 3. Recirculate more water from the delta while still protecting fish. 4. Use this water to add to existing supplies. 5. Give mandatory priority to land taken out of production for solar fields. Remember every year the vast majority of California`s rainwater flows into the ocean.

This is not a challenge. This is straight up greed. Central Valley farmers have been expanding acreage year after year. Stop trying to frame. This is some kind of global environmental issue. It’s a greed issue. It’s California Central, farmers, Stuart Resnick, Paramount Farms. Wake up, start reporting the news and quit pandering to the problem.

So please confirm the final link here. Basically is what you’re saying is if the ground sinks that the canal doesn’t work because water needs to go uphill to another location. Is that what’s going on. They don’t really say how the sinking really causes it to not work

This is great news!

Say it ain't so....a canal that's sinking so they build another one right beside it. So who was the expert that said it would work.

they should have just used pipes. or they should pump water back into the ground

What would Huell Howser think about this?

Building right next to sinking land just sounds like trouble

How does this affect me as a homeowner in Southern California?😢

Wow I have no idea what the problem is cause I didn’t hear it plainly put.

Yep, the problem with those super deep wells draining all the other wells is creating a deeper problem. The problem is not the objection to that being done. There are lots of folks who don't have a strong grasp of cause and effect. They can't focus on actual causes as a result. Gaslighting folks who do have a grasp of cause and effect must must be resisted, and disallowed.

Its almost as if this region is not suitable for large scale farming. Insanity.

This is what happens when you can't engineer beyond your pocketbook.

The entire valley needs to live in minor flood conditions for years to replenish the land because this problem aint going away.

Good story, well done

Need more beavers

What I'm concerned about are these engineers using the error done 50 years ago to solve the same situation. It is like fixing the issue using the same solution that has a problem. Two wrongs does not make it right. It just shows they're foolish to try it again for the amount of $300M of taxpayers' money.

Finest American Engineering.

The effort to import gravity fed ocean water into Laguna Salada in Mexico, Salton Sea in California should also include Death Valley about 282 feet below sea level to increase monsonal moisture through evaporation for Colorado Basin. The new technology of cavitation can produce highly competitive hydrogen fueled electricity and the exhaust is free desalinated ocean water should be our focus asap. The valuable waste brine is mineral rich and has numerous commercial applications to incentivize economic prosperity. I like the idea of making water proof building materials with waste salt by Israel University is fantastic for low cost housing. Imagine giant inland sea's for fish farming, algae, carbon sequestration, recreation, monsoonal rainfall and selling the lowest cost zero pollution fuel source making ocean water more valuable than oil thanks to Eirex Tech in Canada a five year old company.

Reservoirs are the best for Groundwater Recharge.

Farmers grow our food. They have to have water. Farmers are pumping out of the ground because the state will not pump water from the delta.

Ask Adam S. what he’d do?!?!😂

Doesn't the state of California allow a lot of water to flow into the ocean un used? It sounds like they should start there

Imagine using drip irrigation to cut the water use! Then you wouldn’t need to pump ground water as this canal would be enough to meet the reduced demand all while farm outputs say the same. But as usual that makes to much sense so we can’t do it.

‘Farming” in the desert is idiotic

Ask the governor what to do

This is the tragedy of the Commons where greedy farmers profit and expect the public to pay for the consequences of their greed. If they were charged the full cost of the water they are pumping they would think twice about it.

Sorta like rebuilding some of the areas in new orleans after katrina that are below sea level and people don't want to move back to.

What a bunch of fools.

Maybe start rain water harvesting....

greed in that I demand "mine"

More people is always the answer

She should not stand in front of a green screen

its are right for water if Framers Leave your Taxes go up an FOOD PRICES WILL GO EVEN HIGHER

Too many humans.

How about growth management???? No more development!!!

grow some different crop, maybe wheat or something drought resistant, Too much water Usage is causing an runaway affect.

Why can't they install pumps to keep the water flowing?

We need to go back to more localized food and get rid of this fake economy of scale. The dollar costs go down with for products when you grow a lot, but it’s clearly going to ruin your ability to grow their in the future. I buy local food from New Mexico though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brilliant, don’t solve the problem just build something new that doesn’t work!

How about a pipe?

This is cheap compared to the roadbed of your new California High Speed Rail. To go 250 MPH the track and overhead wires need to be within an inch, but the roadbed is sinking. That project is at $35 Billion and rising, and they haven't had to rebuild this part yet.

Need to make it shallower and wider to spread the load , so designers fault

Wait till the bog one. Comes

Did the tax payers pay for this?

Pronounced TulAre

Just keep doing what you're doing👍 ...eventually the federal govt will simply get american taxpayers to bail you out

Here's what we can do...Instead of that massive reservoir being built north of Sacramento, how about it be built from Stockton to Bakersfield, and everything in between can be under 100+ feet of water. Eventually the groundwater will be replenished and as the weight of the water on the land grows less and less, the ground being spongy will bounce back. It will take 200+ years but this is the price we have to pay for 80 years of just okay produce in California.

What is going on with her outfit? Did she just get finished jogging I didn't have time to change?

i would build another one

whey dont they use pipes

The entire state is sinking

"The only option was a new canal" Have you never heard of a pipe?

Just drilled 1730 feet and plenty of water under the valley.

Poor management and greed

Politics and democratic voting to support Bill and bond may fall short and cause only more lost time and money and jobs and more government corruption in a already one or two spot holder of the worst government in the USA.

THE EARTH IS SHRINKING FROM ALL THE PUMPING OF OIL, GAS, AND WATER!!!

why do people keep putting farms in areas without enough rain to supply it. this is just foolish. if you rely on water for your business. move it somewhere with more water or don't put it there in the first place. ill never understand why people would even want to live in areas with not enough water to begin with. or like las vegas, in a DESERT of coarse there is a fricken water SHORTAGE. its just so stupid. XD

Gavin's Garden's

Too many citrus trees there state dosent that much

Newsom doesn't care.

Time for the world to smarten up and plae solar panels on every canal and increase desalination.

Another incompetent project brought to you by gavin newsom