East Palo Alto groundwater risks offer vital lessons to SF
New research further magnifies the growing risk rising groundwater poses to San Francisco and other low-lying Bay Area cities. The nonprofit think tank San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association and the East Palo Alto community organization Nuestra Casa released a study earlier this week analyzing the effects groundwater rise could have on East Palo Alto. The research centered on the Peninsula city because of its proximity to the water, making it one of the Bay Area jurisdictions most susceptible to groundwater rise. But the findings, researchers said, can be applied to all of the Bay Area’s at-risk cities — including San Francisco.