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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.
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The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park, where the watershed is noted for its alpine scenery and its dense concentrations of giant sequoias, the largest trees on Earth.
The St. John's River was named after Loomis St. John [4] [5] and was a product of the 1862 flood. [6] In 1889, the Tulare Irrigation District was organized, and that body constructed a series of canals which diverted water from the river. From one-half to one-third of the water was lost as it coursed through the unlined canals. [7]
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, encompassing as much as 790 square miles in what is now Kings and Tulare counties.
Lake Kaweah is a reservoir near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California.The lake is formed by Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River.The river originates in the Sierra Nevada and drains about 560 sq mi (1,500 km 2) into Lake Kaweah before flowing towards the San Joaquin Valley.
Pressed by Boswell II and other Tulare basin farmers, the federal government finished construction of the Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River, followed in the 1960s by dams on the Kaweah and Tule rivers.
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