#tularelake — Public Fediverse posts
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Map of California 1857: Excellently detailed map from Britton & Rey, showing Tulare Lake and Owens Lake which are now mostly gone. (Note this is before the great flooding of 1861.)
https://www.davidrumsey.com/maps6093.html
#owensvalley #california #tularelake #wetlands #history #maps #+ -
"At one point in the hearing, brothers Phil and Erik Hansen, fifth-generation farmers in Kings County, voiced a brewing suspicion: J.G. Boswell Co., the tomato- and cotton-growing giant whose namesake family had wielded outsized power in the region for nearly a century, was brazenly rigging conditions to spare its own property in the lowest reaches of the lakebed."
#california #storms #climate #climatechange #flood #tularelake
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-28/central-valley-land-barons-tulare-lake-basin-kings-county-flooding-water-farms-boswell -
From Los Angeles Time - “Voices from Tulare Lake — A ghostly rebirth reveals a region’s resilience”
#TulareLake #California #Climate
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-06/tulare-lake-rebirth-life-san-joaquin-valley
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A big part of #TulareLake, largest lake in western #USA lakes until it dried up in the 1800s, has returned amid #California flooding, and will likely stay for about 2 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/california-storms-tulare-lake.html
#geography #geographyteacher #hydrology #Tulare #CentralValley @geography #physicalgeography
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"With torrents of snowmelt flowing through California, two men kayaked an improbable route from Tulare Lake, 215 miles upstate, to the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay." #tularelake #centralvalley #california
(I used the bird link to avoid the paywall)
https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1667757069565407234?s=19
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@mappingsupport Oooh, #TulareLake #LakeTulare, nice map!
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Interactive map shows data from the VIIRS satellites indicating the flooded area (red/blue/yellow) at #Tulare Lake basin. The map has other #GIS overlay layers you can turn on that show dikes and related features. For help, read the “Map tips” link in upper left corner.
If you open the map and zoom out then you will see an orange line that shows the area that drains into the basin. #TulareLake #Geospatial
Open #GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=36.057141,-119.689865&zoom=11&basemap=ESRI_National_Geographic&overlay=Snow_water_equivalent,Flood_map_-_FEMA_100_year,Lake_river_stream,Regulated_stream,Drainage_Tulare_Lake_Basin,Flood_data_VIIRS,USA_roads&txtfile=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/california_flood.txt||35.267610,-119.30899 -
From the Los Angeles Times - “California fights to save city, prison in peril from rising Tulare Lake floodwaters”
#Climate #TulareLake #Flooding
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-12/newsom-announces-funding-to-raise-corcoran-levee
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It's not by chance that #flooding in #California always affects those with least, the worst. Good reporting on how #agribusiness and #bnsfrailway targeted the historic town of #allensworth as #tularelake refilled from @FresnoAlliance newspaper by Vic Bedoian with photos by Peter Maiden.
https://fresnoalliance.com/allensworth-combats-floodwaters-big-ag-and-railroad/
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“This week is just going to get progressively worse and then maybe relent a bit the following week,” @weatherwest said, according to KQED. “The problem is there’s nowhere else for this water to go and the Tulare Lake basin is just going to fill up like a bathtub.”
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Checking on #TulareLake this morning. Looks like it's filling up a bit. All the white colors you see in the basin are blooming cherry trees (note: your cherries might be more expensive this year). #satellite #flooding (Sentinel-2 satellite).
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Meanwhile…PG&E launches its first airboat crew on the re-emerging #TulareLake. The stated goal is to scout the area, disconnect impacted, and soon to be impacted customers, while removing equipment before it pollutes incoming snow melt. #caflooding is imminent as the snowmelt and overflow from dams has begun…what will happen to the residents of #Stratford and #Corcoran #KevinMcCarthy these are your constituents…are you paying attention? Oh I forgot they are mostly immigrant farm workers
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STRATFORD, CA: Tulare Lake 💧
The water is being held by a levee which is unknown when was the last time it was maintained. Two questions need to be asked of every elected official at every level. #TulareLake
1) What’s the plan to divert the water so immigrant farmworker communities such as the town of Stratford are not flooded.
2) What were they doing during the dry years to prepare for this moment. #caflooding #GovernorNewsom
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The 1871 map of Tulare Lake, California. The old map's 200' elevation of Tulare Lake is high enough to flood Corcoran, the prisons, and Stratford. It would force the South Fork of the Kings River to run north to the San Joaquin River likely cutting off Hwy 41, Lemoore Naval Air Station, and flooding West Hills College. #tularelake #caflooding
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2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now. The prisons are located on idle farmland sold to the state by J.G. Boswell in 1985, particularly because the area was prone to flooding. Evidently, the risk of floods at this site is older than the prisons themselves, but no evacuation plan exists for the people locked up in them. #corcoran https://truthout.org/articles/2-california-prisons-face-imminent-flooding-they-must-be-evacuated-now/ #tularelake #caflooding
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California Flooding UPDATE Tulare Lake Fly Over 20 April 2023 https://youtu.be/yNoIYcG82aI #cawx #caflooding #tularelake
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Just saw @weatherwest on #CNN talking about #TulareLake.
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FROM CNN.com - “Thousands of acres are underwater in California, and the flood could triple in size this summer”
#CAwx #Climate #Flood #TulareLake
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/us/tulare-lake-california-flood-climate/index.html
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"In other news the return of #TulareLake is bringing in record numbers of migratory birds." - a hitchhiking pathogen
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“The really long view is that this was a lake, and now it’s a lake again.”
#TulareLake #CentralValley #California #Flood #CaWx
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/tulare-lake-corcoran-california-17882518.php -
Residents near #TulareLake worried about the giant Los Angeles County compost facility which is in the lake bed. #flooding #California #KettlemanCity #Tulare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLTeN5kePs
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In the summer of #1983, “two men kayaked through floodwaters from the banks of the Kern River outside Bakersfield to the San Francisco Bay, a meandering 450-mile journey across what would typically be sun-baked land.”
#TulareLake #SanJoaquinRiver #CentralValley #California #Flood #CaWx
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/tulare-lake-california-storms.html -
Here's an example of bad climate reporting by NYT's Soumya Karlamangla - repeatedly frames the consequences of humans burning fossil fuels on our climate (in this case, a season of extreme precipitation refilling California's Tulare Lake) as the fault of "nature".
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/tulare-lake-california-storms.html
#climatesilence #climate #tularelake #cawx #california -
As a Dutch person, I look at #TulareLake with amazement.
The Dutch also drained land that was under water. But they saw very clearly that the problem was much bigger than anyone could take on on their own.
This is why there is now a Rijkswaterstaat, basically the ministry for dry feet. That ministry, the munipalities, and the farmers etc all coordinate together to stay dry.
Not together, no dry feet - it's that simple.
Together is the way to tackle #ClimateChange.
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In the rubric of #ClimateChangeIsTheLastStraw
#TulareLake was the largest lake west of the Mississippi.
You would think a #water reservoir in an arid state is something to protect.
But no.
People drained it, to grow thirsty crops like #almonds, plus #dairy cattle.This winter, #California got hit by more than one #AtmosphericRiver; the #snow pack is deep. That's now melting.
The meltwater is refilling the lake. And the warm season hasn't even started yet.https://www.fresnobee.com/news/weather-news/article273821460.html