A look at Tulare Lake, California’s newest re-formed lake l GMA 

The lake isn't "flooded", it's returned to where it once was. It's the farms and town that aren't supposed to be at the bottom of the lake.

I hope the Lake will completely refill to its highest level as fast as possible.

Let it be the great lake it once was

Clearly this lake needs to be there.

I live in Tulare County and I would rather have Tulare Lake than a bunch of farms that are growing a bunch of non-native water intensive crops. Please bring back this common good for the people.

I just love thay california is finally getting its waters back filling lakes and reservoirs esapecily here in the central valley

I like to preserve it original lake like before. This may have been the reason that California keep having drought. The water and precipitation cycke disrupted when the settlers drained the lake to farm. If the lake is kept at it natural stage without human interference, drought would be less frequent to none.

Declare a ecological zone and allow the lake to become at least a semi-occurring wetland

This is wonderful!!!! The lake returned.

All the farming structures are not supposed to be there. People are naïve they actually believe that the lake was gone. This has nothing to do with climate change, it’s the cycle of nature that turning on and off as it wish.

There was a lake before there was valuable farmland

She meant aquifer not aqueduct, lol. I have empathy for them coming from a Ag background myself but when you build in a dry lake bed, only dry because you diverted the rivers you have to expect this.

If the El Niño is a wet one that lake will be huge!

I don’t feel sorry for the farmers. It’s their fault for building and growing on a dry lake bed thinking it would be dry forever

The lake bottom land is still there. It's still a lake bottom, but like other natural lakes, it's a wet lake again. Geography matters. Teach your children well.

It’s just really hard to feel sad about this…

Thank God for the rain🌧

Let Tulare Lake live and return it to the Yokuts!

In today world the environmentalist would protect Tulare lake and all the species around it. What a difference 100 years makes.

If I owned flooded farm land I'd look at replicating Chinampas: floating garden beds

Hopefully it's helping to replenish ground water. That is the area of CA that's sinking isn't it.

add loads of beavers to it , they dont eat fish and they will make the area extremely fertile also add loads of fish and if it never dries up it will be a great fishery.

Hope the lake stays and residents get compensated

California: “help! We’re in a draught! It’s a sure sign that humans are irreversibly damaging the environment!” Also California: “it’s terrible! The lake we drained a hundred years ago came back and now we can’t grow our pistachios!”

The farmer need to come together and use the lake for recreational park. Just charge people to go there while the land are under water. It's a win win for both the Indians and the farmers.

Great story. It's going to leave a vert fertile top soil after it recedes.

At 2:01 she calls it a "full-on ecosystem". It was that historically, but a temporary flood does not allow the aquatic plants, fish, invertebrates, etc. to suddenly appear.

Nature always fight back,they should keep the lake as it is and find new place to farm

they all seem stunned that weather changes, that when it rains...lakes and ponds form. Isn't this a good enough topic for you warmingdoomers?

Man took this lake 130 yrs ago from the indians. Now God gives it back. How wonderful ! Hopefully God makes the water stay, it belongs there.

loss of vegetables turns to gain of many species of fish.

Why are prices gonna go up? In the contrary other sellers are just going to profit because of this loss.Its a loss for whoever was growing crops.Justgottagrow moresomewhere else .

Mother nature always wins long live the lake

California cries when it has no water and cries more when it has too much. For being an economic powerhouse plagued by droughts or floods one year to the next maybe commit to more water storage. A lot of it.

What? The heat to melt more snow? It doesn’t sound like Tulare lake is going any where any time soon. We have so much land, why can’t they move and make this a permanent water reservoir?

Throw some fish in there make it a fishing destination

It would be nice if it returned to its old size and depth naturally.

Just think of the crud growing in that water, what with the cow manure and chicken poo.

We need to keep the lake!!!

Will the lake recharge aquifers?

Go lake go!!!!!

Excellent 😊

Colonizer?

lake is much better for california than the farmland is now. we get cheaper produce from other states or even from mexico.

Let the lake reign.

The sierra Nevada needs to be filled with pines to protect the ice from melting to fast

Just imagine the blue green algae.

Water is Life

Team Lake!!

Lol at the guy asking how long the lake will be there even though she literally just said it a minute earlier.

Wow

So add soil and plant...you'll fetch a high price for your crops and won't even need to water them

How about when it drys up use it as water storage.

in the immortal words of the great Nelson Munce, nature says "haha "

"The Colonizers", good lord.

Great reporting! Let Pa'ashi live!

Short term it will have a bad impact on farming and the economy, but if it stays, which it should, it will have numerous long-term benefits: evaporation will increase rainfall to other parts of the region which will reduce drought, it will at least partially restore aquifers so will reduce land sinking and provide more drinking and irrigation water, and it can be used directly for irrigation of farmland - but use of water will have to be monitored with water permits and public ownership of aquifers and wells probably the best option to keep it sustainable so that it doesn't disappear again

Apart from the aquifer guffaw, the reporter was surprisingly informative. Most tv reporters are all drama and lipstick, but she had solid back story and treated this with the respect it deserved. A lot of lives were disrupted and it would have been nice if she had spoken to any of the people there, or looked at owenership structure (mega ag corps vs smal and private farms) but apart from that, nice presentation and happy for a very human, bare bone but respectful performance.

I’m shocked that anyone would lament the resurrection of a murdered lake.

GMA, stop with the banner along the bottom for the entire report. It would be nice to see the entire picture.

Aquifer, good report. Not a new normal?

Just like we made a mistake building a city (New Orleans) between a lake and a river 9 feet below sea level, never should have drained the lake. In a great big country we can grow crops in other places. Leave the lake and let it grow (also, as a lake in the central valley, would be a great way to store water in wet years for use in a pinch in dry years) and not to mention recreational opportunities

What if another wet winter hits and this lake don't go away

Stupid whoever decided to use an old lake bed as farm land. Hope that lake stays there for years to come. 🙌🏽

Lake flooded in 1997 as well. Natives deserve their lake back.

So they complain if there's a lack of water, and they complain once that water is replenished.

Good water needs to come back

Wait it doesn’t seem like it would have an impact on world prices ❤

I love that she actually said "then we came and colonized it" love when people dont shy from speaking truth the right way

Save the lake, please

I think the farms need to be relocated and allow the lake to grow back to its pre 1850 stays, after all, California does have a drought issue and can use all the water it can! America has massive amounts of agricultural land that can be used to compensate for the loss of this land.

Will there be bass and crappies in it soon!!????

Depleted the aquifer not the aqueduct.

clearly we need common sense assault storm laws

Everything happens for a reason and this was that reason...

I wonder how much fertilizer and pesticides are in that water?

It's Aquifer, not Aquaduct

3:00 in juat say "a reminder, this doesn't even account for all the wasted food we produce every single year that if we just factored in would need no significant price increases.."

The earth is rebelling to us killing it.

The next atmosphere river will be in another 10 years!

Don’t feel bad for the farmers. Shouldn’t have stole the land from the natives smh. Crops couldn’t have been that critical if we are still ok.

You see this everywhere. Mississippi delta, Arizona storm washes, etc. Just ignore the reality,

Could u walk through it?

let it be, might also bring back lake corcoran

💙

from feb 1 ,3 months later is my same story

I've been wanting to go home and see the lake for a while I thought it was really cool but I can't really get a good picture with all the pop-ups and all of the boxes on the picture picture it kind of takes away from what you're trying to see

Cool i love it 😂

I call BS the prices are Going to go up? What about all of the years that they PAID farmers to not grow crops to keep prices up?? Bring Tulare Lake back!!!

#letthelakelive

Tulare lake should remain, can’t we tell that we have fucked up already lmao

It is great news for the earth's biosphere water evaporation provides critical oxygen replenishment. Most importantly, it will help the ozone layer that acts like a natural shield against UV rays from the Sun.

I ain’t no tree hugging soy boy. But I’m rooting for the lake

Maybe more than a few years with hurricane Hilary's addition.

They can try pumping the lake out, all these farmers are just helping us dry out and lower the lake bed for Lake Tulare to return

A great place to go hunting for a curvature

if this is a one-off flood and the price of the farmland has been slashed dramatically for fire sale, I wouldn't mind buying them up and wait for the next flood in 40 years time.

Lol I like how they are using word play to dance around what really happened

I hope it keeps raining and raining and raining and it rains steadily for 5 years and after that for 10 years it's cloudy with a chance of showers.

So what is lake like in the almost 2024 new year ?