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Apr 20, 2023 · A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: In California's Central Valley, a once-vibrant lake is back, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi ...
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Apr 5, 2023 · The incredibly high precipitation California has experienced over the 2022-2023 winter rainy season has increased flooding in the state’s Central Valley. This series of Landsat 8 satellite images shows the re-emergence of Tulare Lake between March 2 and April 1, 2023. These three Landsat 8 satellite images show the emergence of Tulare Lake ...
Sep 15, 2014 · The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has designated several groundwater subbasins beneath the lakebed as “critically overdrafted,” including Tulare Lake, Tule and Kaweah subbasins. Overpumping has caused water tables to drop, land to sink near roads and canals and decreased water quality basinwide. (See Land Subsidence .)
Apr 2, 2023 · Birds that once wintered at Tulare Lake — ibises, blackbirds and American coots — are returning in increasing numbers. On a recent sunny afternoon, a row of pelicans glided over drowned ...
May 4, 2023 · Tulare Lake Grows. The San Joaquin Valley sits like a bowl at the base of the southern Sierra. Close to the middle of that bowl is the historic lakebed of Tulare Lake, which was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. Since the 1920s, the rivers that fed the lake have been dammed and diverted for agriculture and other uses.
Tulare Lake, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. The lake would grow every winter as rainfall and snowmelt from the nearby Sierra Nevada range flowed down and filled the basin. By 1920, the rivers that fed the lake were dammed and diverted for uses such as irrigation.
