[TonyLima]

The California Water Watch website has a section on aquifer/wells/groundwater.  It's not updated as frequently as the other areas (snowpack, perciptiation, reservoirs, etc) so I don't watch it as closely.  However, the aquifer levels have been dropping for years and are far less responsive to good/bad years.

https://cww.water.ca.gov/

It seems to me that some or most of the underground aquifers may never recover. I don't mean that they won't show high levels but that some of the underground voids that were filled with water disappeared when water was extracted AND the ground above subsided. Here's the USGS website on land subsidence and groundwater pumping.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/wate...subsidence

Not just lowering the surface. Depends on what lies between the surface and the aquifer. Gravel is best, followed by dirt. Clay layer? Aquifer will recover so slowly (in human terms) that it might as well be gone. I used to teach this stuff.

[TonyLima]

The California Water Watch website has a section on aquifer/wells/groundwater.  It's not updated as frequently as the other areas (snowpack, perciptiation, reservoirs, etc) so I don't watch it as closely.  However, the aquifer levels have been dropping for years and are far less responsive to good/bad years.

https://cww.water.ca.gov/

It seems to me that some or most of the underground aquifers may never recover. I don't mean that they won't show high levels but that some of the underground voids that were filled with water disappeared when water was extracted AND the ground above subsided. Here's the USGS website on land subsidence and groundwater pumping.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/wate...subsidence

Not just lowering the surface. Depends on what lies between the surface and the aquifer. Gravel is best, followed by dirt. Clay layer? Aquifer will recover so slowly (in human terms) that it might as well be gone. I used to teach this stuff.