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May 14, 2024 · Because the Tulare Lake Basin’s irrigation water does not have an outlet, agricultural drainage is stored in a series of evaporation ponds in and near the lakebed, which has been converted to farm fields. By the 1980s the water drained into 28 ponds totaling 7,300 acres. Crop production improved in part due to improved drainage.
May 13, 2023 · 600,000 years of history, and Tulare Lake isn't done yet. In this photo taken in April, trash and other debris litter what was a thriving alfalfa field in Kings County prior to flooding. Much like ...
May 22, 2023 · Lake Tahoe, by contrast, is 191 square miles, but it is much deeper than Tulare Lake. A century and a half ago, before it vanished, Tulare Lake sometimes swelled to more than four times the ...
Jun 8, 2023 · The recharged Tulare Lake has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to farms and communities in the region. But the return of the lake is a celebration for the Native American tribes that used to depend on the water as a way of life.
Jul 10, 2023 · The return of the vast Tulare Lake caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to farms and communities in the region. But for one Native American tribe, the return of the lake provides an ...
Aug 14, 2023 · Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake's depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.
Jun 15, 2023 · Over 150 years ago, Tulare Lake blanketed over 700 square miles of the southern Central Valley, from what is now I-5 to about halfway to the Sierra Nevada. In wet years, snowmelt swelled the lake to over 1,000 square miles––four times the area of Lake Tahoe. But as the four rivers that fed it were dammed for farm irrigation, the mighty lake ...
