According to a letter from Senator Alex Padilla, D-California, to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, all that water was discharged into the dry lakebed of Tulare Lake to be used for limited ...

TULARE COUNTY ... and the entire state of California virtually unlimited water," Trump claimed on Monday. But word of a water release out of both Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam ...

By the time those releases ended on Sunday, water had flowed at maximum levels in rivers and canals and into retention basins, including Tulare Lake south of Hanford. The water soaked into the ...

None of the Kaweah River’s water was destined for elsewhere in California — in wet years it flows into the remnants of once-giant Tulare Lake, which has no outlet, and in dry ones the river ...

AND WHAT IMPACT WILL THESE RELEASES HAVE ON TULARE LAKE COMMUNITIES, INCLUDI U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla is pursuing answers after the Trump administration opened California dams using military resources.