Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Battery of storms resurrect CA’s ‘phantom lake’ in Tulare

There’s been so much flooding that Tulare Lake has re-emerged. It was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and was mostly dry for more than a century.

By Michell Eloy • Mar 30, 2023 • 1 min read

There’s been so much flooding that Tulare Lake has re-emerged. It was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and was mostly dry for more than a century.

Michell Eloy
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Jeffrey Mount
senior fellow at Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center; professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Battery of storms resurrect CA’s ‘phantom lake’ in Tulare

There’s been so much flooding that Tulare Lake has re-emerged. It was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and was mostly dry for more than a century.

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Battery of storms resurrect CA’s ‘phantom lake’ in Tulare

There’s been so much flooding that Tulare Lake has re-emerged. It was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and was mostly dry for more than a century.

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