Researchers from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability are using airborne technology in search of groundwater recharge sites, which they hope can be used to combat any future droughts.
Recently, researchers from Stanford flew California skies on a kind of airborne treasure hunt. Probing hundreds of feet into the ground with electromagnetic signals, they were in search of liquid gold - water, or more precisely a place to capture and store it.
She's just released a new study, confirming the airborne technology's ability to locate what is now popularly called "paleo valleys." They're long, buried riverbed pathways created thousands of years ago by the movement of glaciers that once covered the Sierra. Filled with porous material, experts believe they could act like a high-speed express lane to carry diverted flood water deep into the aquifer.
One prime location is a paleo valley site discovered near Fresno. Kassy Chauhan is executive officer of the North Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency and a manager with the Fresno Irrigation District. She says planners are hoping to potentially use the new data to help plan for critical groundwater recharge programs, in an area hard hit by the state's ongoing drought."And that's really what it's all about when the rain and the heavy, wet seasons come...
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