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Arizona: Land Subsidence Maps
July 7, 2011 | Arizona Department of Water Resources

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has a new set of land subsidence maps and a land subsidence fact sheet available for viewing on the web. Most of the land subsidence problems in Arizona are “generally due to compaction of the alluvium caused by lowering of the water table.”


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