- Author: Mike Hsu
Published on: March 22, 2023
![Researchers standing in a flooded Thompson seedless grape vineyard](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/98299small.jpg)
Researchers flooded two Thompson seedless grape vineyards at UC ANR's Kearney Research and Extension Center in Parlier. Photo by Elad Levintal
Light irrigation before flooding stimulates microbes to remove nitrates from soil
With California enduring record-breaking rain and snow and Gov. Gavin Newsom recently easing restrictions on groundwater recharge, interest in “managed aquifer recharge” has never been higher. This process – by which floodwater is routed to sites such as farm fields so that it percolates into the aquifer – holds great promise as a tool to replenish depleted groundwater stores across the state.
But one concern, in...
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