Weather channel report on drought in California

[whitecoast]

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/usgs-announces-part-calif-sinknig/nb2HK/

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. — On Thursday Bay Area scientists announced that nearly 1200 square miles of California was sinking because people had pumped so much water out of the ground.
Scientists say in some spots right now the ground's sinking about one foot each year.
"That is a very high rate of subsidence," said USGS Hydrologist Michelle Sneed. "This is among the highest rates of subsidence ever measured out here in the San Joaquin Valley.”
Sneed showed us buckled concrete on sinking aqueducts and canals that no longer flow like they should.
One area where high speed rails planned has sunk five feet the last four years and sinking speeds up in dry years.
"If more rain fell and we could capture more of it and recharge the aquifer system," said Sneed, "then ground levels wouldn’t fall as fast as they are now."
Environmentalists say all this is dramatic evidence we're using far too much water, that it's unsustainable. They say nothing is more critical right now than fixing the way we deliver and allocate our water.
"We ought to be worried in the Bay Area because it's going to affect water policies statewide it's going to have ripple effects everywhere," said Peter Gleick, Director of Oakland-based Pacific Institute.
Gleick says with climate change it's fast becoming a crisis.
He says agriculture uses vast amounts of water so do people in Northern and Southern California and there are no laws regulating groundwater use.
Also the San Joaquin Delta ecosystem is collapsing because too much water has already been diverted.
Governor Brown says he's preparing a new water plan but so far has no details.
Gleick says before he can support the plan needs to know "how much water the governor's plan will take from the Delta or how much it's going to cost or who will pay for it."
The Governor is expected to announce his plan in three weeks.

It's true the groundwater is being depleted in this region, but factoring in the opening up of sinkholes everywhere, and the increased volcanic activity lately, must really compound the issue. It makes me wonder of the stability of major geographic regions. Maybe California is starting to "fall into the ocean"? :O

 

[domi]

California is sinking quite literally in Central Valley
_http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/americas-morning-headquarters/california-drought-cracked-20140521

 

[Laura]

That's pretty scary stuff.

 

[domi]

That's pretty scary stuff.

I can't tell you how many people around me are reporting that their wells are running dry and asking about water deliveries.
We're talking about decades of depleting aquifers and the water table which isn't going to be fixed by an El Nino event towards the end of the year.
Thank goodness the coast gets some moisture.

 

[Cosmos]

California is sinking quite literally in Central Valley
_http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/americas-morning-headquarters/california-drought-cracked-20140521

So parts there of the size of Rhode Island (which is 4000 square kilometers) have actually sunken nearly 30 feet in about 50 years since 1926, which is about 9 meters!

I think you can call that a pretty dramatic sinking... Makes you wonder what is going on beneath there...

 

[Skyalmian]

How serious is California drought? Check out these before and after pictures, taken only three years apart. http://imgur.com/a/IgoUq

 

[mkrnhr]

There are new measurements on the land sinking in California: _http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4693

Land near Corcoran in the Tulare basin sank 13 inches (33 centimeters) in just eight months -- about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) per month. One area in the Sacramento Valley was sinking approximately half-an-inch (1.3 centimeters) per month, faster than previous measurements.

Using the UAVSAR data, NASA also found areas near the California Aqueduct sank up to 12.5 inches (32 centimeters), with 8 inches (20 centimeters) of that occurring in just four months of 2014.

 

[Beau]

Wow, that's some pretty drastic sinking going on! 13 inches in 8 months is really fast.

 

[Laura]

Makes one wonder about that segment of predictions Cs gave back in 94. Notice that this is the one that begins with problems in Ukraine, and then goes directly to an aviation thing though Hawaii is mentioned, not Malaysia. Could this refer to either of the Malaysian flights that were lost/crashed?

Anyway, the next part is about problems in CA "after 1st of year". What does that mean, starting in any January after the preceding events? Or do they mean, here, "year 1" considering their later indication of a "year zero"??? Would that be next year???

What triggered the connection in my head was the "ocean floor begins to subside." Could the ocean floor be subsiding at the same time that valley floors are subsiding?

Ukraine
explosion; chemical or nuclear. Hawaii crash; aviation,
possibly involving military. More California seismic
activity after 1st of year: San Diego, San Bernardino,
North Bakersfield, Barstow: all are fracture points.
Hollister, Palo Alto, Imperial, Ukiah, Eureka, Point
Mendocino, Monterrey, Offshore San Luis Obispo,
Capistrano, Carmel: these are all stress points of
fracture in sequence. "Time" is indefinite. Expect
gradual destruction of California economy as people begin
mass exodus. Also, Shasta erupts; Lassen activity. Ocean
floor begins to subside.

 

[David]

Could have sworn there was a transcript, where the C’s say, ‘California sinks...’

Tried search function and got nothing... maybe I'm the only idiot who thought that... sorry if so.

 

[mkrnhr]

Could have sworn there was a transcript, where the C’s say, ‘California sinks...’

Tried search function and got nothing... maybe I'm the only idiot who thought that... sorry if so.

Hello, are you thinking of this session Session 26 November 1994 ?

 

[David]

Could have sworn there was a transcript, where the C’s say, ‘California sinks...’

Tried search function and got nothing... maybe I'm the only idiot who thought that... sorry if so.

Hello, are you thinking of this session Session 26 November 1994 ?

Yes mkrnhr - thank you very much, that’s the one... in my mind it was sinks in to the ocean, along those lines...

Q: (L) Well, let's not denigrate literal translations or at least attempts to get things into literal terms. I like realistic art work. I am a realist in my art preferences. I want trees to look like trees and people to have only two arms and legs. Therefore, I also like some literalness in my prognostications.

A: Some is okay, but, beware or else "California falls into the ocean" will always be interpreted as California falling into the ocean.

Q: [General uproar] (F) Wait a minute, what was the question?

(L) I just said I liked literalness in my prophecies.

(F) Oh, I know what they are saying. People believe that California is just going to go splat and that Phoenix is going to be on the seacoast, never mind that it's at 1800 feet elevation, it's just going to drop down to sea level, or the sea level is going to rise, but it's not going to affect Virginia Beach even though that's at sea level. I mean... somehow Phoenix is just going to drop down and none of the buildings are going to be damaged, even though its going to fall 1800 feet...

 

[whitecoast]

Makes one wonder about that segment of predictions Cs gave back in 94. Notice that this is the one that begins with problems in Ukraine, and then goes directly to an aviation thing though Hawaii is mentioned, not Malaysia. Could this refer to either of the Malaysian flights that were lost/crashed?

Anyway, the next part is about problems in CA "after 1st of year". What does that mean, starting in any January after the preceding events? Or do they mean, here, "year 1" considering their later indication of a "year zero"??? Would that be next year???

What triggered the connection in my head was the "ocean floor begins to subside." Could the ocean floor be subsiding at the same time that valley floors are subsiding?

Ukraine
explosion; chemical or nuclear. Hawaii crash; aviation,
possibly involving military. More California seismic
activity after 1st of year: San Diego, San Bernardino,
North Bakersfield, Barstow: all are fracture points.
Hollister, Palo Alto, Imperial, Ukiah, Eureka, Point
Mendocino, Monterrey, Offshore San Luis Obispo,
Capistrano, Carmel: these are all stress points of
fracture in sequence. "Time" is indefinite. Expect
gradual destruction of California economy as people begin
mass exodus. Also, Shasta erupts; Lassen activity. Ocean
floor begins to subside.

I think 1 year after year zero is the best interpretation. If Ukraine's 2014 maidan coup could be used as the year zero marker, 1st year would be this year.

From _http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html

[quote author=March 12, 2015]Statewide, we've been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.

As difficult as it may be to face, the simple fact is that California is running out of water — and the problem started before our current drought. NASA data reveal that total water storage in California has been in steady decline since at least 2002 (1 year after 9/11) when satellite-based monitoring began, although groundwater depletion has been going on since the early 20th century.

Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain.[/quote]

 

[SeekinTruth]

Whoa, so this has been ongoing for a while. Those C's sessions certain make one think. The whole water issue of California also reminds me of the movie China Town which is based on some actual background/history.

 

[Laura]

Whoa, so this has been ongoing for a while. Those C's sessions certain make one think. The whole water issue of California also reminds me of the movie China Town which is based on some actual background/history.

Yeah, they do make one think, don't they. And with this many years going by, and being able to look back and compare, they sure do stand up well to the test of time.