"We have legacy hazards that have been buried out here for one hundred and fifty years.
The team also found high groundwater in Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda in the East Bay. The team’s data analysis identified many hot spots in north bay cities like Fairfield, Novato, San Rafael and Petaluma, where groundwater is already at the surface - or just a few feet below. She and her team studied data from water quality monitoring wells across the Bay Area and compared those numbers to ground elevation at each site. They looked at all coastal areas up to one mile from the current bay shoreline. The UC Berkeley team’s research shows that in many cases, rising seas are pushing up on the underground water table. “What we think of as a dry crust of land - it's not so dry anymore,” said Dr. People could be exposed to this in a way that impacts their health, causes a miscarriage causes a cancer case right now. Hill specializes in analyzing water movement in urban areas. She and her team discovered that, until recently, there has been very little scientific research that mapped the movement of water underground.
Kristina Hill, a UC Berkeley professor and landscape architect. “It's coming up through the ground, so we can't see it,” said Dr. Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android - and sign up for alerts.
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