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Tulare Lake (/ t ʊ ˈ l ɛər i / ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River . [ 2 ]
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Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake's depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.
The staggering growth of Tulare Lake can be put into perspective by comparing it with the capacities of nearby reservoirs. Millerton Lake, for example, has a storage capacity of 520,500 acre-feet ...
Tulare (/ t ʊ ˈ l ɛər i / ⓘ tuu-LAIR-ee) is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 68,875 per the 2020 census . It is located in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley , 8 mi (13 km) south of Visalia and 60 mi (97 km) north of Bakersfield .
The Tule River, also called Rio de San Pedro or Rio San Pedro, [2] is a 71.4-mile (114.9 km) [1] river in Tulare County in the U.S. state of California.The river originates in the Sierra Nevada east of Porterville and consists of three forks, North, Middle and South.
The last time there was major flooding in the Tulare Lake basin, after a very wet winter of 1982-83, the drying-out process in the lakebed took about two years.
Tulare lake was the terminal sink of an endorheic basin in southern San Joaquin Valley which was also watered by the Kern, Tule, and by some distributaries of the Kings River. Presently water from these rivers is typically used up for irrigation. Water from the St. John's irrigates many thousands of acres of farmland in Tulare County.