California’s central bowl is partly flooded again after a wildly wet winter. #LakeTulare looks like the ocean, almost size of #LakeTahoe though not as deep. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/california-storms-tulare-lake.html

#TulareLake finally receding. #LakeTulare #CAwx https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-06-29/tulare-lake-floodwaters-have-begun-to-recede-state-says

@mappingsupport Oooh, #TulareLake #LakeTulare, nice map!

#LakeTulare on May 21, 2023 via Sentinel-2 #satellite. The white color you see on the non-flooded fields are blooming cherry trees; it appears the biggest impact of this flooding is going to be loss of cherry trees and cherry crops. #CAwx

STRATFORD, CA: A petition has been started as #Stratford is under threat of flooding…it asks that the government take immediate oversight and intervention of this emerging #LakeTulare #caflooding …the details are in the attached petition

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-flooding-of-california-towns-by-tulare-lake

Reestablish #LakeTulare

#California should seriously consider reestablishing Lake Tulare along with it's historic wetlands and ecosystem habitats. This should include enabling it's tributary rivers to substantially flow back into the southern San Joaquin Valley basin.

"Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States based upon surface area. ... Tulare Lake dried up after its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses." - Wikipedia

Building new dams in CA is not a solution to the long term water needs of CA especially with dryer periods caused by #climatechange.

A revitalized Lake Tulare could recharge the San Joaquin Valley ground water and could be used as a water resource during extreme #drought periods.

"Estimates have found that Tulare Lake could hold twice the water of the proposed Temperance Flat Dam at one-fifth the cost." - Wikipedia

#LakeTulare #CAwater #CAFlooding https://sfba.social/@ukeist/110138004196979165

#gis #CAwx Figured out where to snag the lowest part of Tulare Lake's footprint! The areas in blue have a 1% annual chance of flooding and 26% chance of flooding over the life of a 30 year mortgage, per FEMA. #TulareLake #LakeTulare #mapping #floods #Tulare (the lake was larger than this at some point, however)

Floodwaters continue to flow
To the old Lake Tulare lakebed below
It's getting kinda deep
Too much for any sheep
I hope the cows know how to row

#poem (human) #LakeTulare

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-03-24/as-tulare-lake-reappears-floodwaters-raise-tensions-in-san-joaquin-valley