#tularelake — Public Fediverse posts

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"Jackie had Goslings and they're all named Ryan" - my excitement

It's been over 100 degrees the last few days. But that didn't stop Mother Goose. Her eggs hatched last night and her mate came over. Together they pushed the kids off the roof and herded them into the creek.

#nature
#TulareLake

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

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/

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/

“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.”

https://www.kqed.org/news/11947435/what-will-the-big-melt-look-like-in-california-and-how-much-could-it-affect-fire-season

#TulareLake #California #CAwx #CAFlooding

“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.”

https://www.kqed.org/news/11947435/what-will-the-big-melt-look-like-in-california-and-how-much-could-it-affect-fire-season

#TulareLake #California #CAwx #CAFlooding

"Once my uncle drove us to the levy (yes, that levy) in his Chevy (no, not that Chevy)" - My American Pie

This guy knows every drop of water in our state. He's like our #California Jones, yeah he's getting to old for the part.

Meanwhile, Mill Creek is running so fast I saw a goose drown a dog. Well, maybe the dog got out, most likely not. That goose knew how to lead and how to push.

Thing is we have leash laws for a reason; one being water in a hurry, two being dont fuck with the geese, three being don't eat our old people

#TulareLake
#Hydrology

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNoIYcG82aI

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).

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

California Flooding UPDATE Tulare Lake Fly Over 20 April 2023 https://youtu.be/yNoIYcG82aI #cawx #caflooding #tularelake

California Flooding UPDATE Tulare Lake Fly Over 20 April 2023 https://youtu.be/yNoIYcG82aI #cawx #caflooding #tularelake

Just saw @weatherwest on #CNN talking about #TulareLake.

#LakeTulare
#TulareLakeReturns

"#TulareLake has a right to be here" - Jackie Geeseson, who now has a friend.

Tubing weather is here, but avoid Mill Creek

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/us/tulare-lake-california-flood-climate/index.html

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

@StrepsipZerg

"In other news the return of #TulareLake is bringing in record numbers of migratory birds." - a hitchhiking pathogen

@StrepsipZerg

"In other news the return of #TulareLake is bringing in record numbers of migratory birds." - a hitchhiking pathogen

I visited Tulare Lake so you don't have to! #tularelake #tulare

https://brokeassstuart.com/2023/04/12/tulare-ghost-lake/

“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

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

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

#TulareLake #gis layer, hooray! https://iportal.tularecounty.ca.gov/iportal/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=f918bd9b6a7b410fa4fb5712ca066c50

#TulareLake #gis layer, hooray! https://iportal.tularecounty.ca.gov/iportal/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=f918bd9b6a7b410fa4fb5712ca066c50

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

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.
Together.

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.
Together.

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

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

Real time inundation of #TulareLake 3/27/23 vs. 4/01/23. The white colors you see are blooming cherry trees (looks like a big loss of Bing cherries this year--probably long term loss of crop due to inundation) #CA #CAwx #Tulare #Corcoran #Lake #flooding #flood

“This will impact the world…” Sheriff Robinson said at a news conference. “We’re going to have a million acre-foot of water covering up an area that feeds the world.” For the first time in decades,#TulareLake has returned.

Once the biggest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi, Tulare Lake was four times the size of Lake Tahoe, home Yokut Indians and millions of birds and other wildlife, but it was sucked dry by farmers before fully disappearing by the mid-20th century. #tularelake

#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)

The Ghost Of Tulare Lake Returns, Flooding California’s Central Valley
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https://grist.org/extreme-weather/tulare-lake-flooding-california-central-valley-subsidence-agriculture/ <-- shared article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #TulareLake #CentralValley #California #Tulare #flood #flooding #subsidence #groundwater #pumping #aquifer #mining #elevation #remotesensing #agriculture #framing #croplands #runoff #water #hydrology #rainfall #precipitation #landsubsidence #groundsubsidence #snowmelt