Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping.
on the grounds that they inadequately considered the needs of residential wells, among other impacts.by an average of half a million acre-feet each year. On Jan. 13, state water agencies announced a program to expedite approval of recharge projects.
While not enough on their own to reverse overdraft, these programs could serve as models for scaling up recharge efforts statewide. Much of this water was diverted into some 900 acres of basins, including 180 acres that were recently constructed. The Fresno district spent millions buying former farmland and forming these basins, which are basically bulldozed depressions ringed by earthen berms made for the express purpose of depositing water underground.Another example of a recharge project is the Pajaro River Valley, on the Central Coast.
— allows for the water table to dip a bit farther before leveling off. The North Kings agency, according to Chauhan, is also allowing some continued decline., the water table has been dropping for at least two decades, in many places more than 2.5 feet per year on average.The Cordeniz basin outside of Tulare is a pond that the water agency uses to help recharge the aquifer.
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