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Still sinking rebuilt section of Friant-Kern Canal will officially “open” after ribbon-cutting ceremony

June 11, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly rebuilt – but still sinking – portion of the Friant-Kern Canal is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 21. The public is invited to attend. The event, to be held at the Avenue 136 bridge in Porterville, marks the completion of Phase I of a massive construction project known…

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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…

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Flood operations meeting yields little good news as water continues to wreak havoc in the San Joaquin Valley

March 22, 2023

• by Lois Henry

At an all-hands-on deck flood operations briefing Wednesday morning at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, the reports were quick and grim. A bridge over Cross Creek in Kings County had just washed out at Houston Avenue south of Hanford, the CalTrans rep told dozens of emergency workers from fire, roads, rail and water districts mostly…

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Still sinking rebuilt section of Friant-Kern Canal will officially “open” after ribbon-cutting ceremony

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

Flood operations meeting yields little good news as water continues to wreak havoc in the San Joaquin Valley

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