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University of California Technical Completion Report, Project Number UCAL-WRC-W-892. Published as Contribution #207, ISBN 1-887192-13-1

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ABSTRACT:
Land subsidence caused by the excessive use of groundwater resources has traditionally caused serious and costly damage to the Los Banos-Kettleman City area of California's San Joaquin Valley. Although the arrival of surface water from the Central Valley Project has reduced the subsidence in recent decades, the growing instability of surface water supplies has refocused attention on the future of land subsidence in the region. This report develops a three-dimensional, numerical simulation model for both groundwater flow and land subsidence. The simulation model is calibrated using observed data from 1972 to 1998.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Keith J. Larson, Hakan Basagaoglu, and Miguel Marino, "Numerical Simulation of Land Subsidence in the Los Banos-Kettleman City Area, California" (January 1, 2001). University of California Water Resources Center. Technical Completion Reports. Paper larson.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/wrc/tcr/larson