News Muncher - searching for corcoran

Central Valley Californians threatened by this year’s massive Sierra snowmelt will receive much-needed state funding as they rush to raise the Corcoran levee, a critical piece of flood control infrastructure that protects the city of Corcoran and its sprawling prison complex from the rising waters of Tulare Lake. “Knowing that we can fully fund this Corcoran levee reinforcement so that …

A pipe yard on 10th Avenue in Corcoran is submerged as the resurgent Tulare Lake continued to expand last week. NASA’s MODIS satellite imaging system shows where floodwaters refilled parts of the once-dry Tulare Lake in California over recent weeks. In 1983, a record-setting year of rain, Tulare Lake reached its most recent high point, flooding some 82,000 acres of …

Corcoran

Floodwaters from a break in levees in the San Joaquin Valley floods a farming operation near Corcoran on March 21. Tulare Lake, a local body of water that was largely drained more than 100 years ago, has been filling up after powerful winter storms. As the Algerian French philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote: “A ghost never dies; it remains always to …

Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. “I’m just amazed at how fast it filled.” Mark Grewal, an agricultural consultant, stands on a flooded road near Corcoran, where Tulare Lake is reappearing and inundating thousands of acres of farmland. In previous flood years, Grewal said, levees were typically cut open in an agreed-upon order, sending water from one …