CA lake suddenly returns 130 years after vanishing

[WB Staff]

Tulare Lake, located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the whole of the US.

But, some 130 years ago it disappeared – thanks largely to the greed of colonialists, who drained its waters to create arable farmland.

And yet, last year, the once-cherished lake suddenly reemerged, bringing with it both positive and painful effects.

Back in the late 19th Century, Tulare stretched more than 100 miles long and 30 miles wide, and was “the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River”, Vivian Underhill of Northeastern University explained in a news release.

At this time, it contained so much water that a steamship could carry “agricultural supplies from the Bakersfield area up to Fresno (at the heart of the San Joaquin Valley) and then up to San Francisco” — a distance of nearly 300 miles – she said.

However, in the succeeding decades, the “ancestral lakes” and connecting waterways that made such a route possible all but vanished thanks to manmade irrigation.

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[WB Staff]

[WRB]

California population 130 years ago was about 2.2 million residents, today nearly 40 million that all need water for drinking and agriculture for food. Solution get rid of 38 million California’s people.
Tom

[mark poulson]

California population 130 years ago was about 2.2 million residents, today nearly 40 million that all need water for drinking and agriculture for food. Solution get rid of 38 million California’s people.
Tom

Hahaha

[jiggin4bass]

You can bet your arse Trump will when he reelected again in 2024

[Backlash Black Belt]

You can bet your arse Trump will when he reelected again in 2024

how?

and how does this jive with h...nevermind.

[mark poulson]

You can bet your arse Trump will when he reelected again in 2024

Will you make the cut?

[jiggin4bass]

I have no complaints about ca. I know alot of people do. But they'll get over it

[mark poulson]

I have no complaints about ca. I know alot of people do. But they'll get over it

WRB said we'd have to cull 38 million Californians. So, would you make the cut?

[jiggin4bass]

With no problem.

[WRB]

Remove Friant and Pine Flat dams to guarantee flooding the Tulare basin.
Tom

[jiggin4bass]

Tulare lake basin was full in 1983 and could have choose to keep the water level in the basin with both friant dam and pine flat dam in place. But they dint want to store the water. Nothing going to change they empty it again they dont want to keep water in it. They never have.