Tulare Lake
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Oct 17, 2026
Vern WarnkeGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Casey SteedHOST
Well, people may forget, you know, the, the Tulare, uh, Lake-
Vern WarnkeGUEST
It came back
Casey SteedHOST
... came back into existence.
Pete DeneenGUEST
We saw it happen in the winter 2023.
Pete DeneenGUEST
A huge area of Cent- the Central Valley got flooded, and Tulare Lake came back.
Pete DeneenGUEST
That is probably California's future, especially as more of our snowfall comes down as rain rather than snow.
Pete DeneenGUEST
So the Sierra snowpa- the, the, the snow line in the Sierra is raising, and so when more precipitation comes down as rain versus snow, you have more flooding impacts.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
Absolutely.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
Um, so Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
And so it was located, and still is, like it's not gone.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
I, I call it now an ephemeral lake.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
Some people call it a ghost lake.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
I call it an ephemeral lake.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
Tulare Lake was, was drained and starved of its rivers at the turn of the century in order to open it up for agriculture.
Dezaraye BagalayosGUEST
And Allensworth was the first Black-founded and funded community, uh, and it was founded on the southeast shoreline of, well, Goose Lake and Tulare Lake.
Miles MuzioGUEST
...
Miles MuzioGUEST
when we had Lake Tulare.
Sharad WaiteHOST
Yes.
Sharad WaiteHOST
[laughs]
Matt PowersHOST
This is the Sierra Nevadas and this is the water situation.
Matt PowersHOST
There once was the largest body of water, fresh water, west of the Mississippi, Tulare, where there's a city now and there's no lake.
Matt PowersHOST
But look at that lake.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
What the people did, or the government
Sharon DaphnaGUEST
In Central California, a lake, uh, Tachi Lake, that had been...
Sharon DaphnaGUEST
Uh, they call it Tulare Lake now, but the real name for it by the indigenous people of California is Tachi, and it used to be huge.
Sharon DaphnaGUEST
It was the biggest lake, freshwater lake, west of the Mississippi.
Sharon DaphnaGUEST
It was drained in the 1800s to create farmland.
Luis ChavezGUEST
All that to say that you can expect the county to declare a emergency placeholder so that we're better able to respond when we do get this, you know, torrential rains that we know are coming.
Luis ChavezGUEST
As you recall, a couple years ago, we brought back the Tulare Lake for a number of, you know, I think almost a year.
Luis ChavezGUEST
It took for it to drain out.
Luis ChavezGUEST
So one thing that's very important, and we want to make sure that our folks up in the mountain regions where our colleague will be leaving, they won't have a representative there.