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More lawyers: New legal team joins fight for the Kern River

September 16, 2024

• by Lois Henry, SJV Water

A prestigious, international law firm has joined the legal team representing local groups suing the City of Bakersfield over how it operates the Kern River. Morrison Foerster is well-known in environmental advocacy circles for, among other things, its work on the Mono Lake case that resulted in the “National Audubon Society v. Superior Court” decision….

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City of Bakersfield pins blame for dry Kern River on ag districts, tells citizens to go ask them for water

September 11, 2024

• by Lois Henry, SJV Water

More than 20 people showed up at Bakersfield’s City Council meeting Wednesday night to vent their frustration with a suddenly dry Kern River and ask what more the city can do. The city’s response was hat they should go to the ag districts with river rights. After Council Member Andrae Gonzales led a choreographed Q&A…

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Date is set for hearing prompted by dead fish in the long meandering Kern River case

April 30, 2024

• by Lois Henry

Kern River combatants are headed back to court where a local advocacy group hopes to force the City of Bakersfield to goose up flows, which were cut to a trickle leaving piles of dead fish west of Bakersfield. The hearing is set for May 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Division J before Kern County Superior…

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Dead fish piling up in pockets along the western reach of the Kern River concern Bakersfield residents; may prompt return to court

March 22, 2024

• by Lois Henry

After taking a bike ride along the Kern River recently, Bakersfield resident Jonathan Vegas was dismayed by what he found the farther west he pedaled. “More of the river has dried up, and the smell of death goes on for miles from the dead fish carcasses throughout the riverbed,” he wrote in an email. “It’s…

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Some parks get water, others dead fish – it’s all tied up in drought and Kern River history

September 13, 2022

• by Lois Henry

The drying lakes at the Park at River Walk and along Truxtun Avenue have stirred a lot of controversy over the impact to wildlife but also over what people see as a lopsided division of pain during this very painful drought. Why are City of Bakersfield water features going dry while lakes, a golf course…

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More lawyers: New legal team joins fight for the Kern River

City of Bakersfield pins blame for dry Kern River on ag districts, tells citizens to go ask them for water

Date is set for hearing prompted by dead fish in the long meandering Kern River case

Dead fish piling up in pockets along the western reach of the Kern River concern Bakersfield residents; may prompt return to court

Some parks get water, others dead fish – it’s all tied up in drought and Kern River history

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