San Joaquin Valley Summary

The documentary San Francisco 2.0 examines how San Francisco city officials have given tax breaks to the Silicon Valley tech industry to move to San Francisco. These new techs companies have brought in a lot of wealth to the city, but at a cost. The majority of the low-income natives are being evicted or having their rents raised so high that they can't afford them. The gentrification of the city has impacted low-income districts (for example, the mission district known for its Latin immigrants) that the residents and the culture are being displaced. I believe the documentary is important for the study of the issue of gentrification because San Fransisco was known for being-counter culture, caring for the arts and for civil progress. The housing

The Central Valley of California, United States, is a notable structural depression which covers around 32,187km2 (Figure 1), and is bounded by the Cascade Range in the north, the Sierra Nevada in the east, the Tehachapi Mountains to the South, and the Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay to the west (Planert 1995).

The San Joaquin River is the backbone of the San Joaquin Valley. The valley is not only the nation's most agricultural area but it is also one of the entire worlds. Millions depend on the crops that come form this luscious valley. The river has gone through many drastic changes over its illustrious lifetime. Once it was a magnificent 350 miles long it is now one of the nation's ten most endangered rivers. The river once flowed with enough water to support steam ships and a salmon migration it now goes completely dry in some areas. The river does not have enough water to support itself any more and must take in water from various other places, such as the Pacific Ocean which

California has always had a warm climate, yet its supply of water has rarely been affected. In 2014 California’s water shortage issue truly began. Due to low amounts of snow in the winter in recent years, California has tried to equal out these shortages by drilling water from underground aquifers. Yet, underground aquifers recharge much slower than surface water sources. California has already made significant drawbacks to attempt to limit the amount of water they use, so these aquifers can recharge. But still resources continue going down and the Central Valley Aquifer’s water level is rapidly declining. Luckily, on April 7, 2017 the drought stage of emergency in California was ended. Yet the issue isn’t truly resolved. Glen MacDonald

Especially in the area around the Great Basin, since that covers most of the state. This area is surrounded by the mountain ranges and gets all the run off . This water helps with the water shortage throughout the year but at the time it is too much for the area to handle as there is no drainage to the ocean from this area. Groundwater is used throughout the state. Sometimes, the water is pumped out faster than it can be replenished. When this happens, the land surface can be affected. There are many cracks in the ground near Las Vegas, and in some places the land has sunken in over six feet within the last sixty years. An increase in the population of the state is to blame for the increased demand on the groundwater and therefore, the increased damage being done to the landscape as a whole. More people, more water, more land being developed, means less of the natural preservers being available. Also, with these floods the state sees landslides. The rocks of the area show the different ways the terrain was built

An Average of 1.6 trillion gallons of water are extracted from the Delta for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project on an annual basis (Holyoke). With so much demand, the Delta’s ecological balance has been deeply affected. Furthermore, water supplies and local uses are considered to be in crisis due to crashing number of fish species and old weak levees (Lund, et al.) It is feared that during a strong regional earthquake, many of the levees would fail. Due to the increasing demand on water supplies, conservation efforts, and hundreds of interests, the Delta is also the jugular of California’s water

People are taking out thousands of gallons each day, but they are not really concern about the land sinking. The land is sinking because people are taking a lot of water, the land has nothing at the bottom so it sinks, “state water managers estimate that water tables in some parts of the Valley have dropped 100 feet below historical lows. As water level sink, the land can sink too, in some places by a foot per year”

People predict things all the time. The question to ask is do their predictions come true? The San Joaquin River Restoration project had Bill McEwen and Daniel Weintraub predicting what would happen within the years of this restoration. What is intriguing to know is if their prediction came true. If they did come true was it for better or for worse?

Groundwater is one of the most important natural resource in the nation, specifically in the Central Valley. In California, many people are pumping a lot more water because of the California drought and groundwater is a good resource for the farmers to harvest their crops. However, the main issue today is that in the Central Valley is that the land is sinking faster and faster due to the demand of pumping more water from the ground. The ground sinking in California isn’t recent, but it has been going an ongoing issue for over decades. Therefore, the land sinking has background history, but many studies and researchers didn 't take it as a warning until recently, and as a result it has been getting worse. The land sinking occurring in the Central Valley can cause damages to our communities such as bridges and roads cracking and can even go as far as cracking irrigation canals. These damages can cost millions of dollars to recover and rebuilding damages. On the other hand, the ground sinking has already destroyed canal linings, which will cost millions of dollars to repair. With that being the case, imagine all the other damages that the ground sinking will cause and cost to fix them. For these reasons, the state of California needs to start finding possible solutions to prevent the ground sinking from further sinking and to prevent more damages to the Central Valley. Solutions that might include encouraging the community to

San Elijo Hills is a community that was designed to balance a small-town atmosphere with local amenities. Within this master-planned development, residents can enjoy walking to all of their favorite shops, restaurants and schools. Exceptionally family-friendly, San Elijo Hills includes luxury homes, starter properties and a range of other housing options. For a small-town ambiance and a walkable community, visit the community of San Elijo Hills.

The Central Valley has a hot Mediterranean climate in the north; the southerly parts of the region are dry and categorized as desert. The Central Valley is prone to greater daily and seasonal temperature ranges than the surrounding mountains or the coast.California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California. And the land is not to big but it is not too

Kharl argues that in the case of the Sierra Nevada’s Owens Valley, located approximately 250 miles north Los Angeles, the valley’s agricultural shareholders and the City of Los Angeles originally sought an agreement that reserved sufficient water for valley residents to maintain their ranching life-style while concurrently exporting the valley’s surplus to the soon-to-be developed San Fernando Valley. Such an agreement would allow rural users to maintain their ranches while concurrently allowing Los Angeles to grow. In 1913, as plans for the Los Angeles Aqueduct finally came to fruition with water flowing from the valley to the basin, years of effort ended with both parties unable to agree to an acceptable division of those waters with the

Grand Valley is a school that is really devoted to liberal education, but I wasn’t too sure what that meant until I read this article. “Liberal Education & Global Community” was probably my favorite article out of the four we were assigned to read. I really agreed with the themes it contained and the lessons it incorporated. To learn about other world views will allow you to put yourself in their shoes, which is necessary if we want to have a peaceful society.

This project is called the San Joaquin River Restoration.They had to rebuild the river so that the salmon and fishes can swim back and forth. It cost them only $400 dollars to rebuild the dry river.I agree with Daniel Weintraub because he’s been the public affairs columnist for the editorial pages of Sacramento Bee since November 2000. Daniel Weintraub has been covering California politics and a public policy for 22 years, also including the last 18 years in Sacramento. I choose this statement because I think California should invest money in this project because it can help us in many ways and so that we can have a better economy. “The Sacramento Bee, April 26,2009 is the newspaper where this article was published in. I believe the SJRP was worth the $400 dollars because of the experts that supported the numerous studies that proved it would work and help California and the positive impact this project would have on people emotionally.

According to the American Bar Association, "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded that during the 20th century, sea levels rose some 5-9 inches throughout the world."(Gresham, Imwalle). This not only puts costal communities at risk of losing their homes, but also cause damage to infrastructures worth millions of dollars. The rise of sea level due to climate change has put Bay Area officials hard at work to come up with different plans on how to deal with this in the future.