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A new map released by NASA earlier this year shows that large portions of California are sinking. The worst of it is in the San Joaquin Valley. One of the main reasons is the over pumping of groundwater, especially in the last five years of drought. All that sinking and all the snow melting in the Sierra has Central Valley water managers like Dustin Fuller worried. He’s managing an army of earth movers that are scraping top soil off farmland that surrounds the Corcoran State Prison in Kings County. His team is getting ready for what officials feel like could be a big flood, but looking at it now you wouldn’t have a clue that this dry area could become a lake. “We’re excavating dirt right now to build a levy,” says Fuller with the Cross Creek Flood Control District that manages water in the Corcoran area. And when I ask him when he needs it built he says “yesterday, yesterday.” Fuller says the levee used to be tall enough. Due to subsidence it’s sunk and now it’s not. He’s the water
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