Tulare Lake's rebirth will reshape life in the San Joaquin Valley for years to come. ... PG&E crews work on a power line in a flooded pistachio orchard in the Tulare basin.

And the resurrected Tulare Lake (pronounced too-LAIR-ee), already more vast than all but one of California’s reservoirs, could remain for two years or longer, causing billions of dollars in ...

The lake now stretches about 111,000 acres, just a fraction of its historical size of nearly 512,000 acres (800 square miles), and it’s currently five to seven feet deep.

Powerful winds caused hours-long power outages and severe damage in Tulare County on Tuesday. 24/7 Live Fresno County North Valley South Valley Foothills/Sierra Welcome, Mickey ...

Compounding the lake’s staying power is the nature of the underlying soil, which includes a thick layer of impermeable clay called the Corcoran clay layer — a Pleistocene-era sediment laid ...

Tulare Lake’s demise came via Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River, ... 10 miles east of Tulare Lake, on the line of the railroad, at a cost of $1,000, throws out 85,000 gallons of water daily, ...