State water officials said this week that they do not expect additional flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin in the coming days as temperatures increase and the state's snowpack continues to melt.
Continuous rainfall throughout the year's first three months and the subsequent melt of snow from the mountains above the basin have refilled the lake more than a century after it was drained to use the land for farming.
Brian Ferguson, spokesman for the Office of Emergency Services within Gov. Gavin Newsom's office, said Monday that the state intends to be proactive at preventing more snowpack runoff from submerging the basin even further. State Climatologist Michael Anderson noted that minimum temperatures in the Central Valley in the coming days are forecast to be about 10 degrees higher than average for late April.
Work began earlier this month to raise the Corcoran Levee by nearly 4 feet in an effort to prevent further flooding in the city. The levee spans some 14-1/2 miles around Tulare Lake, which is fed by four separate rivers.
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