Tulare Lake, a historic freshwater lake that dried up due to water diversions for agriculture, is set to return — perhaps for the long term — as a result of recent heavy rains and flooding, and anticipated spring snowmelt.
Image from the Aug 14, 1898 issue of the San Francisco Call, from an article titled “Tulare Lake Dried Up: Disappearance of the Largest Body of Fresh Water in California”
A group of unidentified men and a dog camping at the shores of Tulare Lake. This image is now housed at the Sarah A. Mooney Memorial Museum in Lemoore, CA. It is one of two photographs which survive of the historic lake. Rain and snow continue to pound California in the season’s 11th “atmospheric river,” and are bringing water in such volumes that an old inland freshwater body, Tulare Lake, could be restored for the first time in 40 years.at CalMatters.
[E]ven 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 transformed by furious storms into a vast and rising sea. The lake’s rebirth has become a slow-motion disaster for farmers and residents in Kings County, home to 152,000 residents and a $2 billion agricultural industry that sends cotton, tomatoes, safflower, pistachios, milk and more around the planet. The wider and deeper Tulare Lake gets, the greater the risk that entire harvests will be lost, homes will be submerged and businesses will go under.Mark Grewal, an agricultural consultant and former executive at the dominant J.G.
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