The releases, as ordered, have sent water toward low-lying land in the Central Valley, and none of it will reach Southern California, water experts said.
Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California ...
Dumping the water from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake doesn’t just pose a flood risk to downstream communities, he said, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded during rainstorms in 2023. It ...