Climate in Crisis: Tulare Lake Reforms Causing Flooding

There’s a slowly unfolding natural disaster in the Central Valley about halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield just east of Interstate 5 in the town of Corcoran.

In this area people have worked for a century to make California’s Tulare Basin into a food grower’s paradise. But now that pastoral landscape now looks more like the Pacific Ocean as more than 30 square miles is now underwater.

After all of the atmospheric river storms pummeled the area and saturated the basin’s soil, floods have damaged towns and deluged farms and have begun to refill what was once a sprawling lake.

The floods have pitted neighboring property owners against one another

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