March 24, 2023 Area water managers and government officials acknowledge that if Tulare Lake Compost were flooded, the resulting contamination could trickle into groundwater and contaminate streams ...

In addition to ruining crops, the reemergence of Tulare Lake has brought fears of contamination by Los Angeles County’s sewage sludge. If a sewage plant in the area were to flood, the ...

Owens Lake, 220 miles north of Los Angeles ... threatening microbial contamination. Tulare County has already issued a health warning regarding floodwater contamination. “It’s going to ...

Once a stretch of fertile farmland, the area is now underwater. In a surprising turn of events, Tulare Lake– a natural lake that disappeared more than a century ago– has reappeared in California’s San ...

Tulare Lake used to be one of the largest freshwater ... Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images However, there are also concerns about contamination of the water in the nearly-formed Tulare, as a ...

Tulare Lake was once the biggest freshwater body ... more intense weather whiplash on a planet overheated by fossil fuel pollution, and in a worst-case scenario, relentless atmospheric rivers ...

A facility called Tulare Lake Compost transforms human waste from ... Verboon says the J.G. Boswell Company doesn’t want the contamination potentially spilling over onto its property.

Tulare Lake, a lost lake in California ... "A big concern with the newly formed lake is water contamination from a variety of sources, including fuel, oil, and landfill/waste material," Rippey ...

State regulators were also concerned the Tulare Lake subbasin plan hadn’t done enough to protect drinking water wells from going dry or being contaminated and that the five groundwater agencies ...