Assessing Claims About Trump’s Decision to Release Water From California Dams
The Southern California wildfires reached 100 percent containment on January 31, the same day that President Donald Trump ...
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President Trump wasted water meant to help California farmers in hot summer | Opinion
The water was being held behind federal dams at Lake Kaweah east of Visalia and Success Lake near Porterville. As reported by Lois Henry of the website SJV Water, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last ...
SJV Water on MSN24d
Southern Kings and Tulare county farmers with unregistered wells may face local penalties
Farmers within portions of the Tule and Tulare Lake subbasins will have one month to register their wells or be charged a ...
Visalia Times-Delta on MSN17d
Trump administration's order to release water into San Joaquin Valley raises concern
The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to release water on Friday from Kaweah and Success lakes in the San Joaquin Valley to ...
Fresno Bee on MSN17d
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes
Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated ... The winter flood control capacity limit for Lake Kaweah is 12,000 acre feet and it was holding about 39,000 acre feet Thursday morning, ...
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Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
Hernandez said the water would go to Tulare Lake, a dry lakebed that last filled up during record-high rainfall in 2023. Other water experts said it would have been nearly impossible to divert the ...
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Central California farmers raise concerns after Trump orders dam water release
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The flow of water being released downstream out of Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah has slowed considerably since Saturday. An executive order from President Trump ...
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Trump ‘Opened’ the Water in California and Wasted It
None of the Kaweah River’s water was destined for elsewhere in California — in wet years it flows into the remnants of once-giant Tulare Lake, which has no outlet, and in dry ones the river ...
Visalia Times-Delta20d
Trump administration's order to release water into San Joaquin Valley raises concern
The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to release water on Friday from Kaweah and Success lakes in the San Joaquin Valley to help California fight wildfires is causing concern and confusion among ...
Valley Public Radio16d
Water managers vent frustration over water dump from Tulare County lakes
In the big picture, the amount of water was not huge. It was the process. He (President Trump) has no idea how bad he effed ...
The Fresno Bee18d
President Trump wasted water meant to help California farmers in hot summer | Opinion
By the time those releases ended on Sunday, water had flowed at maximum levels in rivers and canals and into retention basins, including Tulare Lake south of Hanford. The water soaked into the ...
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California water releases ordered by Trump draw criticism: ‘It’s going to be wasted’
The water release occurred late last week via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and involved the opening of two Tulare County dams — in Lake Kaweah and Success Lake — located in the heart of California ...