United States Army Corps of Engineers Makes Unplanned Releases From Two Tulare Lake Basin Dams

March 2025

California Water Law & Policy Reporter, Volume 35, Number 6

Over the weekend of January 31, 2025, at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released 6,300 acre-feet (AF) – roughly two billion gallons of water – from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake in the Tulare Lake Basin for unclear purposes and with little advanced notice to downstream local agencies in charge of flood management.

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