Months of atmospheric river storms have pummeled the area, which is home to crucial farmland. A historic snowpack in the mountains above the basin will make things worse.
"This is a slowly unfolding natural disaster," said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Water Policy Center of the Public Policy Institute of California. "There's no way to handle it with the existing infrastructure."
An aerial image shows a BNSF train passing a vehicle stuck in flood waters during flooding in the Central Valley from a winter storm in Tulare County near Allensworth, California on March 22, 2023.In the nearby town of Allensworth last month, a dispute over a culvert caused anxiety and friction with the railroad that sends trains through town.
The Tulare Basin is at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley — and in essence, it's a massive bowl. Before irrigators dug canals and rerouted water for farming in the late 1800s, Tulare Lake filled the bowl's lower reaches. Shallow water stretched across the landscape, and the lake was the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi.
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