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Corcoran had been sinking, steadily, for years because of persistent overpumping of groundwater by major landowners in the Tulare Lake Basin that has sent the valley floor into a slow-motion collapse.

Roads and farms are being flooded outside Corcoran, Calif., where the vast Tulare Lake once existed.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times Supported by By Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn ...

Although Corcoran has escaped catastrophic flooding, Javier De La Cruz wants it known that families like his lost nearly everything with Tulare Lake’s rise. De La Cruz works for Foster Farms ...

Southbound Dairy Avenue disapears beneath extensive flooding, seen about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday, March 22 ...

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 [email protected] For modern-day ...

because of Tulare Lake’s resurrection, is buying its own airboat. Image Foster Farms, a poultry company that housed chickens on a property in Corcoran, had to evacuate during the flooding.Credit ...

Figueroa asked while shaking his head no. A mailbox is seen along Dairy Avenue, about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday ...

A California “ghost lake” that disappeared in the 19th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland. The Tulare Lake in ...