Farmers in Tulare County are being allowed to continue pumping so much groundwater that it is endangering a newly constructed portion of the Friant-Kern Canal that had to be rebuilt because overpumping had sunk a 33-mile section of the canal, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. Land around the new canal section has continued to sink at a much faster rate than initially envisioned, said Johnny Amaral, chief operating officer of Friant Water Authority, which filed the lawsuit along with the Arvin-Edison Water Storage District. … If the current rate of subsidence – projected at one foot a year – continues, it will “reduce long-term deliveries by nearly 100,000 acre-feet per year” to Arvin-Edison, according to the lawsuit. 

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