A wide-ranging letter from J.G. Boswell Company Vice President Jeof Wyrick accuses SJV Water of misrepresenting the farming giant’s plan to deal with subsidence, land sinking from excessive groundwater pumping, which has impacted huge swaths of the San Joaquin Valley, including around the small town of Corcoran.

Lois Henry

SJV Water

Wyrick is also the chair of the El Rico Groundwater Sustainability Agency, which is controlled by Boswell and covers mostly Boswell land.

El Rico doesn’t plan to sink Corcoran by another 10 feet, according to Wyrick’s Aug. 12 letter.

Just 6 feet.

It may be relevant to note that El Rico’s plan would possibly lower the Corcoran levee, which protects the town and two state prisons, to a height of 186 feet. During the 2023 floods, the state had to do an emerg

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