RELATED: Growing Tulare Lake captured in NASA satellite images
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Over the last several months, the once dried-up land has filled with about 178 square miles of water from four Central Valley rivers.
RELATED: Rising temperatures could accelerate snowmelt, leading to flooding worries
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It's a direct result of the recent winter storms and snowmelt in the Sierra.
The Department of Water Resources is no longer projecting serious flooding to surrounding communities but experts are still monitoring levees.