tule river

A bill that would finally formalize a 2007 agreement between the Tule River Indian Tribe and several downstream agricultural users advanced to the Senate earlier this month.

Traces of the old stagecoach route can still be found in Central Valley communities today.

Water managers were relieved after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision to dump massive amounts of water from Kaweah and Success lakes.

A thunderstorm brought on by Tropical Storm Hilary filled the Tule River with debris and caused a power outage on the Tule River Indian Reservation. The tribe declared an emergency after the reservation’s water treatment system failed.

This story is part of a Valley Public Radio original series on how the health of rivers impact the health of communities produced as a project for The…