I live there. It'll go toward the old Tulare Lake, not the Pacific. Irrigation districts could divert some water into ponding basins for groundwater recharge. It's such a stunt.

I grew up in the Central Valley and now live in Germany, about 100 miles away from the nukes at Büchel airbase. The fact that the ACoE just went along with this until they were talked down by the water managers is disturbing, to put it mildly.