Boswell representatives at the meeting said their focus has been to protect the town of Corcoran by keeping room in the old Tulare Lake bed for expected higher flows. That’s “ridiculous,” Hansen said.

While some groundwater managers in the Tulare Lake subbasin look for ways to come together on pumping limits in order to ...

The company, which controls the El Rico Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA), still plans to allow so much groundwater pumping within its boundaries that it could sink the old Tulare Lake bed — ...

California's Tulare Lake is filled to the brim, but with the blessings of ample water also comes a curse: floodwaters that could drown fields and roadways for years.

The rumors were so rampant, that Kings County sent agricultural inspectors into the old Tulare Lake bed to see if the powerful J.G. Boswell Company was holding back flood waters in order to plant ...

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley. Now, a ...

Tulare Lake, having been drained in the 19th century for agriculture, has reappeared in California's San Joaquin Valley after massive winter storms and snowmelt. Reclaiming around 94,000 acres ...

Tulare Lake, once erased for farming, surged back in 2023—flooding land, reviving tribal ties, wildlife, and warnings about climate and colonial legacies in California.

Tulare Lake was the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River up until the late 1800s when its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.