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MEETING NOTES: Public-private groundwater recharge program at North Kern Water Storage District gets underway

November 10, 2023

• by Sonia Lemus, freelance for SJV Water

* “Meeting Notes” is a new feature focused on Kern County water districts, funded through a grant from the James B. McClatchy Foundation. Please consider supporting SJV Water to continue this important coverage. Meeting: North Kern Water Storage District board of directors Date: Oct. 17, 2023 Agenda: CLICK HERE Board packet: CLICK HERE Major topic:…

dams • Uncategorized

Residents below Isabella Dam again swamped by seepage after new pump runs out of gas

October 17, 2023

• by Lois Henry

Residents living below the Isabella Auxiliary Dam were thrilled earlier this month with a temporary fix that finally dried up excessive seepage from the dam that had been swamping septic systems and breeding forests of mosquito-infested weeds around their homes. The didn’t realize how temporary the fix would be, however. After only 12 days without…

Floods • Friant-Kern Canal • Uncategorized

Damage from “severe breach” of Friant-Kern Canal construction at Deer Creek difficult to assess

March 13, 2023

• by Lois Henry

An unfinished section of the new Friant-Kern Canal suffered a “severe breach” at Deer Creek in Tulare County Friday night as the normally dry creek swelled with rain and snowmelt and overran its banks into the construction zone. “This was worse than the one before,” said Johnny Amaral, Chief Operating Officer of the Friant Water…

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MEETING NOTES: Public-private groundwater recharge program at North Kern Water Storage District gets underway

Residents below Isabella Dam again swamped by seepage after new pump runs out of gas

Damage from “severe breach” of Friant-Kern Canal construction at Deer Creek difficult to assess

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