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Court to consider cutting water diversions out of Kern River

October 3, 2023

• by Lois Henry

A preliminary injunction that could cut water being taken out of the Kern River if those diversions are harmful to fish will be taken up Friday, October 13 in a Kern County courtroom. The request for the injunction was filed in August by a group of entities suing the City of Bakersfield for what it…

SGMA • Uncategorized

Creek beds to be used for groundwater recharge and to improve water quality in Kaweah subbasin

September 29, 2023

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

A fast-acting recharge project in a creek bed near Lindsay is scheduled to break ground in December, one of three such projects underway in the East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency. Lindmore Irrigation District’s Lewis Creek Recharge Project will capture water via a siphon from the Friant-Kern Canal when supplies are available, and send it along…

Personalities • Uncategorized

Bakersfield hires former assistant director of Water Resources Department to lead the department

September 28, 2023

• by SJV Water

BAKERSFIELD CITY PRESS RELEASE Following a nationwide recruitment effort, the City of Bakersfield is pleased to announce that Kristina Budak has been hired to lead the City’s Water Resources Department, effective Oct. 2, 2023. Budak’s hiring marks a return to the City of Bakersfield after spending nearly two years serving as the Engineering and Groundwater Services…

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Is the San Joaquin Valley ready for its post SGMA future? Not…quite…yet

September 27, 2023

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

In less than 20 years’ time, the San Joaquin Valley could become a patchwork of vast swaths of vacant, weed-filled lands interspersed with a few single-crop mega farms that employ only a small fraction of those who currently work in agriculture. Or, it could be thriving with robust solar operations, thousands of water recharge basins,…

Floods • Uncategorized

Valley agencies in a race against winter and a fast-approaching state deadline to repair flood damage

September 22, 2023

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

All across Tulare County, the race is on to repair flood-damaged infrastructure before an anticipated El Niño winter and an even more looming expiration of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order that relaxed permitting for levee work and debris clean up. The work has lagged, though, as creeks and rivers are still flowing or the ground…

Rivers • Uncategorized

Kern River: “Best kept secret” demystified through technology

September 22, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

There’s a new way to explore the Kern River and it can all be done from the comfort of your own home. The nonprofit Kern River Parkway Foundation has sponsored a visual mapping of the Kern River. Volunteers set out along the river on the parkway’s bike path and down some of the river in…

Drought • Uncategorized

Water Board upholds “cease and desist”; says company has no rights to spring water used in its Arrowhead bottled water brand

September 19, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Whenever drought has struck in recent years and Californians were ordered, beseeched and shamed into conserving water, many frustrated residents pointed to Nestlé, which continued extracting tens of millions of gallons of springwater every year from the San Bernardino National Forest for its Arrowhead water operation. But the state Water Resources Control Board put an…

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Army Corps was unprepared for amount of seepage from Isabella Dam that is now swamping residents

September 18, 2023

• by Lois Henry

Landowners and residents who live in front of the Auxiliary Dam at Lake Isabella are being swamped by “seepage” coming through the earthen dam that is ruining septic systems, causing sinkholes, clogging the area with weeds and breeding swarms of mosquitoes. They’ve tried working with the Army Corps of Engineers, which recently rebuilt the Auxiliary…

Rivers • Uncategorized

Tübatulabal tribe celebrates homecoming with return of a slice of its ancestral lands

September 16, 2023

• by Lois Henry

Tribal members celebrated the return of more than 1,200 acres of their ancestral lands in the jagged hills above Weldon on Saturday in a ceremony marked with gratitude, emotion and prayer. Chairman Robert Gomez opened the event by thanking a large number of people who helped find, purchase and deed the land back to the…

Rivers • Uncategorized

Will a pending water rights bill on Gov. Newsom’s desk be a game changer in California water? It depends

September 15, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

A water rights bill that made it through the Legislature this year is, arguably, a much weakened version of its original form, but the fact that it addresses senior rights at all is a significant step, according to experts. Senate Bill 389, which clarifies the state Water Resources Control Board’s ability to investigate senior water…

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Court to consider cutting water diversions out of Kern River

Creek beds to be used for groundwater recharge and to improve water quality in Kaweah subbasin

Bakersfield hires former assistant director of Water Resources Department to lead the department

Is the San Joaquin Valley ready for its post SGMA future? Not…quite…yet

Valley agencies in a race against winter and a fast-approaching state deadline to repair flood damage

Kern River: “Best kept secret” demystified through technology

Water Board upholds “cease and desist”; says company has no rights to spring water used in its Arrowhead bottled water brand

Army Corps was unprepared for amount of seepage from Isabella Dam that is now swamping residents

Tübatulabal tribe celebrates homecoming with return of a slice of its ancestral lands

Will a pending water rights bill on Gov. Newsom’s desk be a game changer in California water? It depends

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