Flooding events of the (normally) dry Tulare Lake in recent years included 1938, 1955, 1969, 1983, 1997, and now the spring of 2023. Previously, the winter of 1982-83 was the last time that water flowed into the Tulare Lake basin.

◆ Main rivers feeding the Tulare Lake basin:
Up until the 1800s, Tulare Lake was fed by five Sierra Nevada rivers – the Kings, Kern, Kaweah, Tule and White Rivers:
⏶ 2,287 cu ft/s avg discharge rate — Kings River
⏶ 946 cu ft/s avg discharge rate — Kern River
⏶ 554 cu ft/s avg discharge rate — Kaweah River
⏶ 197 cu ft/s avg discharge rate — Tule River; 36.059350, -118.913389, from Success Dam 240mi away to
⏶ 10 cu ft/s avg discharge rate — White River
(Flow rates taken from Wikipedia in April 2023.)

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