Citizen of the Planet via UIG via Getty Images The flooding that began in the Tulare Lake Basin in March, and then increased rapidly in the months that followed, is so vast it extends up to 24 ...

TULARE LAKE BASIN, Calif. — In the lowlands of the San Joaquin Valley, last winter’s torrential storms revived an ancient body of water drained and dredged decades ago, its clay lakebed ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Water is quickly flooding back into California’s Tulare Lake Basin ...

It roared to life last spring after epic winter storms and runoff from the snow-laden Sierra Nevada overwhelmed the human-made systems that long ago drained the Tulare Lake basin. The reborn ...

Fortunately, the Tulare Lake area isn’t heavily populated. Most of the land in the lake bed is agricultural and owned by huge farming operations. The biggest community in the immediate basin ...

A farming ranch is surrounded by floodwater in the old Tulare Lake basin area of Kings County south of Corcoran on Thursday, March 23, 2023. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com For modern-day ...

The area is under widespread flooding about a mile south of Quebec Avenue, south of Corcoran in Kings County, where flood waters are re-filling the Tulare Lake basin. María G. Ortiz-Briones ...

Anger toward Boswell at Kings County supervisors meeting Flooding over miles of farmland north and east of the old Tulare Lake bed has sparked questions and angry accusations by farmers against ...

The winter of 1982-83 was the last time we saw water going into the Tulare Lake basin. The lake was known in the late 1800s as the largest freshwater lake in the western United States.

The last time there was major flooding in the Tulare Lake basin, after a very wet winter of 1982-83, the drying-out process in the lakebed took about two years. As of last week, large swaths of ...