Return of Tulare Lake: Farmland impacted as lake basin fills 

Right? Just like beaches lol. People never learn

Right? Because without all that extra food your parents wouldn’t have been born, meaning you redundant muppets wouldn’t be here, and the freeways would be clear.

No common sense here, please.

Oh, maybe folks will figure that out, but yeah, probably not.

It was the rich farmers decades ago that drained it. I'm sure they didn't learn because they're dead now but maybe we can change it. Having a lake this size would help the climate of the southern valley and the water resources up north wouldn't be so stretched.

yeah only in california SMH

WHODA THUNK?!!

More like: Rich man: *hand wringing* "Heh, lets drain this lake, divert the rivers, destroy the forests, drive away the natives, and use the remaining water to grow cotton in our new desert."

@@hotdogsarepropaganda Mexico city is built on the ormer pluvial lake in endhorrheic basin. It was stupid idea drying such lake.

Bad at math Humans egos love drama

Dr Nat! I've been watching her in Texas and she said that about Galveston too! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

You forgot 1997. But Hey…not a lot of Mathematicians coming out of Central Valley Schools.

They are always going to bias the story on what folks with money want. They want to farm this floodplain and government will bend the rules to accommodate money.

Centennial floods aren't literally once a century, they just have a 1% chance of occurring in any given year, thus probability says it will happen every hundred years. It's really not that complex, this is a middle school earth science vocab term. I can't wait for you people to discover millennial floods.

let?

The central valley is a thirsty place, Lake Tulare should simply be an overflow lake and have special zoning, in the long run, the water will always be welcome.

Well you cant let it return every year because it isnt something that happens every year.

If we even get this amount of water again.

Not only that, in the summer the evaporation would bring rain back to the Sierras and in the winter more snow. It would balance the region to not be so dependent on these monsoon seasons that occur every 20-30 years.

YES! We need to replenish the tons of ground water that the farmers AND the residents have been pumping out of the ground for years now. We're FAR from topping off our underground storage capacities. Percolating the water through the soil is a slow process when we've had so many years of dry weather. This will do GREAT THINGS for the long term underground wells and water supplies :D

It is excellent news.

Sometimes nature balances annually, sometimes by decades and sometimes by centuries. Our planet is alive and the climate is always changing.

Yep. But you can't replenish ground that has subsided its a shame that farmers didn't do this earlier before the aquifers lost the area it used to have

@@Jessyjames60 👍

We need to fight for it!! They build over our farmland with sprawl but they can't give back at least some of the lake to nature!!!

No it can't. The lake will turn into the second salton sea. The lake will be polluted with farm poison.

Plant rice this year.

It was wiped out by irrigation and diversion. It would be there if people weren't using it all up. Its natural

The many beautiful migratory bird species that relied on it deserve to have it back.

Maybe the folks that own the land don't want the lake back.

@@johnbaskett2309 You think? Maybe it never should have become private land in the first place.

@@mkaberli Give it back to the Indians?

Yes!

@@johnbaskett2309 Half of people's food go in the trash can anyway. We could get by with less food.

Yeah. You can find shells in the ground if you dig a bit.

Yeah I live in Bakersfield and always find so many seashells here too

​@@airamxx same in porterville

Lake Corcoran.Waters shores went to Shasta City up north. Thats 1000ft

Noooo! The lake of recent times was drained for agriculture!!!!

i would 3D-print them in some good silicone material so they will be move-in ready when the water level comes back down.

you cant build on the lake bed. its not allowed. the ONLY thing allowed on the lake bed is farming, and even then the farmers know that their fields might get flooded if we have a really wet year and high snowpack.

​@@orion7741 that's crazy because I see a building in that lake. Guess they didn't know about that rule.

Gavin will pump it all to the ocean to cover up the fact he didn't patch SF's broken sewer system when he was mayor. It's his Painting of Dorian Grey lol.

It is honestly despicable the way local farmers are blaming their water shortages on the reservoir managers and politicians. It is the farmers pumping our reservoirs and wells dry, so they can pour it out onto the ground during the heat of the day. Then they act surprised when they run out of water. How much water did they store during the record rains? Where are their irrigation ponds? It is like punching a cement wall then cursing it for being hard. You would think they would get smart and use drip irrigation, or even just water at night. Climate change is real, the climate extremes are only going to get more extreme.

This lake is a good first step.

Maybe. Depends on the structure of the aquifers that have been pumped dry. If it is sandy than they can refill quickly. If it has a lot of clay, then it will take a long time because of tight structure that was collapsed and compressed by pumping.

when does it get 'notable'?

Don't be foolish. Use a dictionary.

@@grahamfloyd3451 lol. ok.

@@grahamfloyd3451 Unprecedented means never having occurred before. They stated 4 separate incidents over the last 100 years where it happened before. The same number of times they used the term "unprecedented". Google is not a dictionary. Use a dictionary.

Should be houseboats instead.

To be fair, it was drained over a hundred years ago from irrigation. People didn't think of or consider the consequences of altering the land like that. It's a bit like how Burmese pythons, tilapia, and nutria got into the US, or rabbits and cane toads in Australia. Heck, that one community, Corcoran, would be underwater. Hind sight is 50/50.

Win/Win for developers.

@@Mondoblasto0 - yeah, but it last flooded in 1983. A long time ago, but not out of living memory.

@@MisterLumpkin I don't know this area and can't speak for anyone that, say, just moved there in the last ten years or have been there for three or four generations, but people have been building there for a long time now. One whole community was built on the lake bed itself. It could be said for any situation that doesn't make sense, 'why would they do that? why would anyone?' People make decisions on all sorts of factors. In this instance of time for the people living there, things didn't work out in their favour.

It's not a flood plain, it's a basin. Read Cadillac Desert. It just dries up every summer and floods every spring. Or it would do this if the Army Corps of Engineers didn't divert all of the inflows so four big landowners could farm at the bottom of a lake.

@@MattBakken10 it's all the same . A basin a plain it's one in the same . They flood then dry up then flood again . That's what happens in low lying areas . The problem here is the land has dropped 10 feet or more turning the area into a bowl

go save the salton sea then(low iq)

thats bs

@@tommurphy4307 It's not. It's settled federal case law.

@@tommurphy4307 Tell that to the Department of the Interior which has asserted control over man made ponds because migratory birds are using them as a place to rest during migration.

@@garygemmell3488 Lake Tulare is not a man made lake it is a natural lake for thousands of years.

? Water was diverted for other cities. It wasn't those farmers that did this...

@@luisgutierrez8047 look it up and you will find out you are incorrect

In her lifetime.

It is unprecedented. I image you can find your way to a dictionary if you're online.

@@grahamfloyd3451 Yeah, the lake Tulare lakebed floods every 20-25 years. The last time was in 1997, I think. Before that in 1983, before that in the 60s and 50s. What did you expect? This used to be a lake for 500k years before they desiccated it for farming water. It's not like it will stay dry forever. That's not how nature works.

Ppl don't even know what that means. I think most ppl just think it means important

@@grahamfloyd3451 OMG...you didn't watch it, either?

Amen

No!!!! Father God always WINS🎉

​@@TheJounir123 amen My foot..

@@johnmorgan7947 Don't get your foot wet.🤣😂

​@@johnmorgan7947​Maybe actually read the Bible and understand 'Mother Earth' is a metaphor for the fertility of the land instead of being perpetually outraged. "The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left." Isaiah 24:4-6 “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?" Job 37:14-16 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind." Job 12:7-10 "In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land." Psalms 95:4-5 "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." Psalms 19:1 "The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen." Isaiah 43:20

It’s a start, plenty of scientists/ geologists/ hydrologists saying this needs to happen every year for at least 10 years to make a difference to the depleted grown water. Unfortunately most of this water will just sit in the surface and evaporate over summer

@@craiggillett5985 Thanks 👌

Yup, but salt will go down with the fresh water. What with salt build up, reoccurring drought, and now flooding, maybe nature is shutting down that non-sustainable farming.

The evaporation helps also bring precipitation to keep replenishing so as long as the lake bed does not get drained

@@Batlord_Carcas This! Lake Tulare being there made the climate a lot more livable in the southern part of the Valley. Unfortunately, some idiats decided that they want to grow cotton instead and killed the lake! Now everybody suffers.

I like my tomatoes ok?

@@harrybaulz666 You're more than likely getting them from Mexico in the first place.

I love to come here for fishing 🎣.

​@@harrybaulz666they grow cotton there not vegetables

@@mkaberli Most likely from Mexico? Most produce is grown in California, from avocados to tomatoes to pomegranates. Do you even live in the US?

"And going to get more often." No evidence.

@@billhosko7723 Actually this happened again in 1997 and in the 50s and 60s. This is a natural lake. Let the lake be a lake.

the natives?

​@Leonardo Oregon we got no problem taking care of what we always have been a part of in a good way 🙏🙏🙏🙏 many blessings 🌕☀️

Count on it.

you can bet the govt will NOT let that happen.

It must have been the ravishes of 'Global Warming' brought about by fossil fuel utilization that caused those mega-floods.

unusual atmospheric rivers.. again!

If we can string €50-€100 together California can be a rainforest

GOOD JOB you get an A for that report

Global warming was that bad last time🤣?

Do your homework my friend. You'll discover a whole lot of government involvement And the dust bowl happened After the lake was drained.

For over 100 years, big money and political connections enabled growers to grab water rights and farm the deserts of the Central Valley.

​@Just Looking 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Woah, when could you take a boat from Bakersfield to the Bay Area? Geographically it makes sense, I’m just wondering if you said that because it was possible in your lifetime specifically.

The key here is that the Yokut tube had the right and ability to self defense, in order to protect their property. Only when that was taken away did they loose their property. In order for people to be controlled, their ability to fight back must be taken away.

I got feed a vid here about the lake. It was really interesting.

I've seen maps from hundreds of years ago showing coastal California as an island

@@youtubename7819 Look at a map of California from 1850. During heavy rain fall years, the San Joaquin river would swell and could be ridden from Tulare Lake all the way up to Stockton.

Ummmm, we do. It's called Tulare Lake. Some idiats decided to desiccate that lake, but it keeps coming back. Hopefully this time it stays for good.

@@TohaBgood2 i grew up in Tulare county. All the complaining that ca needs more water storage. The largest one possible is kept drained for cotton. Which requires millions of acer feet of water.

😆😆😂🤣😂🤣🤘🤘🤘🤘🇺🇲

Yep. Mess with nature again. I dare you! lol 😁

Let's play baseball.

And in 1997!

Whoa! That would be something I would love to do at least once in my lifetime! Bring the lake back!

Yeah..who Needs food.

Endorheic lakes can very quickly become too salty to be useful for irrigation. I think its foolish to try and contest this lake’s existence, but it wouldn’t be useful for very long as an irrigation reservoir. The lakebed is mostly clay, so percolation isn’t really a practical option either. It should just be a lake for the birds.

@@astrosoup A final solution will be very expensive. Either the land is allowed to salt up, which will end farming, or the Fresno Slough is channelized to allow some of the water to get to the San Joaquin river. This will ameliorate the salting problem but we are talking Los Angeles River size public works. I think it will depend on how much damage is done this year. Flood the prison at Corcoran perhaps?

@@johnmorgan7947 There's far more land to farm in the valley than reservoirs to store the water to farm it. Even a child can see this.

@@johnmorgan7947 Cotton?

Will help along with other large flooded areas. Globally some 80% of liquid fresh water (ice excluded) is ground water, let that sink in.

@@Mrbfgray literally let that sink in

@@milserpentine See what I did there? ;-)

Maybe , but there would be out-flow anyways to produce electricity , ppssibly??

I don't know how much of this moisture is getting to Lake Mead's sources in Colorado. But if California does not take its allotments, which the biggest, that would leave more for other states.

no, my tangerines and cannabis plants are still thirsty and my water gods are trying to raise the prices- as usual. time to invest in some more rain barrels.

? It wasn't farmers that destroyed this lake it was CA as a whole who redirected the water out of it...

@@luisgutierrez8047 Nope. Look up J.G. Boswell. This is purely a private corporations gradually desiccating the lake and buying up the newly dried up land for cotton farming.

@@luisgutierrez8047 On behest of farmers lol.

Nah. Go hug a tree.

@@yekutielbenheshel354 Why? We are the people of California. If we decide that there needs to be a lake there then there _will_ be a lake!

It won't on these time scales, you actually are suggesting we flood the fields forever.

@@afoose The lake was there first

@@Jamer767 how do you feel about the communities in New Orleans that live right next to the levees holding back the ocean? should they move too?

​@@afoose absolutely. They can't complain knowing the ocean is right behind the wall right down the street

​@@kurt477 such sympathy you have for people below you, from farmers to underprivileged communities in NOLO

Let me introduce you to capitalism and private property as it’s fundamental precept

Mind you, last time the farmers did get the state to pay to pump the water into SoCal storage. So this conversation is actually coming up in 3...2...1...

THIS! I was wondering how they can enforce private property, when you are on the water and not the property. Bet this is gonna be a legal mess this summer 😆

Fo’real! Worst case: a kayaker leaves a mark in the soggy soil that shows in, as the Sheriff put it, “September”; which will be tilled regardless, especially in the Tulare Lake region.

Except no levy broke

the salton sea was formed by a broken levy,not by climate change or any other nonsense and is drying up...oh well--the great salt lake used to be hundreds of miles in all direction--salt lake city was under hundreds of feet of water---climate change(garbage)

That's actually how Lake Tulare is supposed to work. It used to be connected to the San Joaquins river. It was basically a big overflow water storage tank. Like a natural safety valve. But some genius decided to desiccate the lake and grow cotton there instead. And every time it floods (cause it's darn lake!) they ask for money from the government to help pump it out. It's a pretty crazy situation actually.

That’s what I said! Getting to a waterway by public road, and floating above the land isn’t trespassing.

You're probably eating California farm products as you type

How do you move a farm??

@jaycweingardt11 before they drained the 9th largest lake the farms were around the lake..

so will the very place u r taking up in life after you leave...

@@billhosko7723 Why? This is literally natural lake that used to be there for literal hundreds of thousands of years!

no thanks i am sure the bottom of that lake is full of Pesticides from them growing there crops .

@@markvanderstelt8999 you dont want to eat the fish from the simpsons?