Tulare Lake Storage and Floodwater Protection Project

Tulare Lake Storage and Floodwater Protection Project

Note: Review Per Lead The proposed project would involve the construction and operation of surface storage and conveyance facilities in the Tulare Lake Bed to capture and improve the management of floodwaters from streams tributary to Tulare Lake, which principally include the Kings, Kaweah, and Tule Rivers, and other waters that may become available for storage and management such as State Water project flows. The project would be constructed on approximately 19,700 acres within or immediately adjacent to the dry lakebed. Water storage would be created by the construction of leveed impoundments on up to approximately 12,000 gross acres within the dry lakebed. The reservoir would be formed by constructing levees of approximately six feet, to up to eight feet, in height with a total storage capacity between approximately 15,000 and 30,000 acre-feet respectively. Available floodwaters would be conveyed to project facilities through new and existing channels, canals and pipeline facilities, including Empire Weir No. 2, Blakeley Canal, and the Kings River South Fork Canal. Improvements of existing conveyance facilities may also be necessary, and may include the construction of pump stations. Project water would be conveyed, either directly or from storage, into the California Aqueduct via a new conveyance facility for delivery to the Semitropic Water Storage located in Kern County.

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California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 6 (DOT), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 (RWQCB), Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), Department of Water Resources, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW)

Central Valley Flood Protection Board, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), Department of Water Resources, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW)

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