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The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump’s direction knew it wouldn’t reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.

A California "ghost lake" Tulare Lake that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland.

NASA comparison images below show the basin's transformation from a dry landscape to a shallow lake after heavy rains in August 2023 and February 2024. The lake now fills the low-lying salt flat.

Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh-water body west of the Mississippi River, disappeared when waters were diverted by agricultural interests to irrigate crops in the late 19th and early 20th ...

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Diverting water According to the Los Angeles Times, the lake has expanded to cover more than 45,730 hectares (113,000 acres) — an area nearly as large as Lake Tahoe, 485km (300 miles) to the north.

Hutson said he witnessed the flooding of Tulare Lake in 1983 and 1997. This time around, he noticed one key difference: the flooding of Highway 43 along the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Tulare Lake, which refilled for the first time in 40 years after atmospheric river storms pummeled California , will take at least a year to evaporate entirely, experts said.