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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 ...
a hydrology manager at the department, during a Tuesday media briefing. Each of these rivers historically flowed into the Tulare Lake, which disappeared after farmers rerouted and diverted so ...
KINGS COUNTY, Calif. -- Images from NASA show the revival of Tulare Lake after months of relentless rainfall in Central California. In Kings County, floodwaters are covering a large area of ...
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, encompassing as much as 790 square miles in what is now Kings and Tulare counties. But by the late 1800s it had been ...
Still, even longtime residents have been staggered this year by the brute swiftness with which Tulare Lake has resurfaced: In less than three weeks, a parched expanse of 30 square miles has been ...