Tulare Lake Basin – Lakebed Flooding and Groundwater Issues

Tulare Basin Map, Shannon1; CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Update:

Latest Models show Tulare Lake Flooding likely to Spare Corcoran (Gabriel DILLARD, The Business Journal; May 22, 2023)

https://thebusinessjournal.com/latest-models-show-tulare-lake-flooding-likely-to-spare-corcoran/

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‘Big Melt’ of Sierra Nevada Snow will begin this weekend. Tulare Lake flooding to worsen (Tim SHEEHAN, Fresno Bee; April 23, 2023)

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article274594821.html

The Ghost Lake Rising in California (Robyn WHITE, Newsweek; April 22, 2023)

https://www.newsweek.com/lake-tulare-california-filling-water-return-1795617?amp=1

After the deluge: Floods may taint more drinking water in California (Alastair BLAND, CalMatters; April 19, 2023)

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/04/california-floods-contaminate-water-nitrate/

Images: Return of Tulare Lake (NASA)

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151174/return-of-tulare-lake

Selected Research Articles:

Disparities in Drinking Water Manganese Concentrations in Domestic Wells and Community Water Systems in the Central Valley, CA (AIKEN et al., 2023)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.2c08548#

Anthropogenic basin closure and groundwater salinization (ABSCAL)[PAULOO et al., 2021]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169420312488

Effect of Groundwater Age and Recharge Source on Nitrate concentrations in Domestic Wells in the San Joaquin Valley (CASTALDO et al., 2021)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.0c03071

Sorption processes affecting arsenic solubility in oxidized surface sediments from Tulare Lake Bed, CA (GAO et al., 2006)

https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/download/35875/pdf

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