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This part of California keeps sinking — but farmers are urging officials not to intervene
With the historically wet weather, the Kings County city of Corcoran and its two state prison facilities were threatened by flooding with the re-emergence of an ancient lake, Tulare Lake ...
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California farming area placed on probation over declining groundwater and sinking land
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, but it was drained generations ago to serve agriculture. Fields across the ancient lake bottom have been transformed ...