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Looking at water levels near Hanford in Kings County, researchers determined land will continue sinking for centuries unless groundwater is replenished in those areas.
Govenor Gavin Newsom's recent executive order may make drilling new wells for agricultural uses more difficult. Local groundwater sustainability agencies would have to determine if future drillings will affect sustainability goals.
Pumping caps have been, or soon will be, implemented in all three groundwater sustainability agencies in the Kaweah subbasin.