As those diversions expanded in the 20th century, Tulare Lake gradually shrank and disappeared altogether after World War II, when Pine Flat Dam blocked the Kings River, its major tributary ...

Tulare Lake filled once again in 2023 ... Fresno was even once a lakeside town. Subsequent damming and diverting of rivers for agriculture and other uses allowed the lakebed to be turned into ...

The DSOD has listed all seven dams in Tulare County under state jurisdiction as “satisfactory” – its top grade. These dams are Bravo Lake Reservoir, Crystal Lake, Elk Bayou, Lady Franklin ...

producing more runoff than dams will likely be able to manage and contributing to flooding on parts of the Valley floor, including Tulare Lake. “Flooding in the lakebed is likely to continue ...

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — In late January and early February, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened two Tulare County dams following ... this water into Tulare Lake would not reach ...

Tulare Lake wasn’t always something from the past. Back in the 1800s, it was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. But things started to change in the late 19th century.

During the extremely wet winter a year earlier, the great Tulare Lake had once again overflowed its dams, dikes, levees and ditches, as it does every once in a while despite all the efforts of ...

Dam managers in California sometimes release ... to Los Angeles rather than let the water simply be discharged into Tulare Lake where it will evaporate?” New research shows global warming ...

Early one summer morning in 1989, photographer Matt Black and I descended by elevator into the bowels of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Terminus Dam in ... once-giant Tulare Lake, which has ...

The tour of Friant Dam and the hearing in Tulare come as California confronts ... A proposed enlargement of Lake Shasta by raising Shasta Dam in Northern California to provide about 634,000 ...