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The largest body of water west of the Mississippi disappeared 130 years ago
- blendo 3y ago" Once, Underhill says, there was so much water that a steamship could carry "agricultural supplies from the Bakersfield area up to Fresno and then up to San Francisco" — a distance of nearly 300 miles. " It'd be nice to re-establish a small channel, only open in big years, like it used to be.
- skybrian 3y agoStill there, but much smaller: > Last summer, Tulare Lake covered around 120,000 acres of land in Kings County. > "If you think about Kings County, it's about 890,000 acres total, and so with that coverage, over 10% of our county was covered in water, which is a pretty remarkable thing to think about." Kings County Sheriff's Sgt. Nate Ferrier said. > In the months since, the water has receded drastically, now covering around 4,500 acres of land. - https://abc30.com/tulare-lake-recent-storms-wet-weather-water-receding/14396478/ https://abc30.com/tulare-lake-recent-storms-wet-weather-wate...