Wednesday marks one full year since the state brought the “hammer” down on Kings County farmers for pumping so much groundwater it sank a vast area that could be seen from space, nicknamed “the Corcoran bowl.” In the year since the Water Resources Control Board put the Tulare Lake subbasin on probation for lacking a plan that would, among other things, stop excessive pumping that is causing land to collapse taking an entire town with it, state actions were halted by a lawsuit, injunction and appeal. … The legal actions have put a wall between Water Board staff and Kings County water managers but that doesn’t mean nothing’s been happening. While state well registration, reporting and fee sanctions are on hold, just about every groundwater sustainability agency in the subbasin has implemented its own version of those measures.