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The total surface covered by the lake amounts to about 30,000–50,000 square kilometers (12,000–19,000 sq mi). [6] Buena Vista Lake, Kern Lake and Tulare Lake are remnants of Lake Corcoran. [5] The lake is the source of the Corcoran Clay, [2] a lacustrine unit of the Tulare and Turlock Lake formations. [7]
For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely rich area, which supported perhaps the largest population of Native Americans north of present-day Mexico. [3] In the second half of the 19th century, Tulare Lake was dried up by diverting its tributary rivers for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.
An 1873 map shows Tulare Lake prior to shrinkage from large-scale agriculture.. The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. [4] It extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the California coastal ranges (Diablo and Temblor) in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.
Heavy machinery continues raising the levee south of Corcoran in anticipation of snow melt raising Tulare Lake, photographed Tuesday afternoon, April 25, 2023. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA/ezamora@fresnobee.com
Adding to the state’s focus on Tulare Lake is the big prison complex at the southern end of Corcoran. Between the main prison and a substance abuse facility adjoining it, there are 8,000 inmates.
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Initially, this lake drained into the ocean through a valley near present-day Monterey. However, ongoing seismic activity raised the coastal mountains sufficiently to plug this outlet. Concurrently, ice melting off the Sierras raised the water level in Lake Corcoran until the lake began to carve a new outlet to the ocean. At some point, the ...
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “During floods, controlling where the water goes, when it goes there and who profits, is a centuries-old game. “