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Funding to protect valley towns from flooding yanked out of budget even as climate change increases threat

February 9, 2023

• by Lois Henry

The same day that water gushed over the banks of Miles Creek swamping the small town of Planada in Merced County last month, the Newsom’s administration pulled $40 million out of its proposed budget that was intended for flood protection projects in the San Joaquin Valley. Advocates had worked for years to get that money…

Groundwater • Personalities

Fight over Kings County pipeline just the latest clash between water titans

February 9, 2022

• by Lois Henry

Trucks and heavy equipment emblazoned with the distinctive diamond “B” logo parked on the banks of the Tulare Lake Canal late last month weren’t sending a subtle message. The giant JG Boswell Company has little love for Sandridge Partners. Nor for the man who runs it, John Vidovich, nor for his current pipeline project that…

Rivers • SGMA

River rights battles in the San Joaquin Valley stuck in eddy

February 1, 2022

• by Lois Henry

If you’re living in excited anticipation of the next batch of legal action on several San Joaquin Valley rivers now under scrutiny by the rights division of the State Water Resources Control Board, you may want to cool your jets. That doesn’t mean absolutely nothing has been happening on the Fresno, Kings and Kern rivers….

Rivers

VIDEO: Shocking fish for science

January 18, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

In early December, the Kings River Conservation District did its annual fish population survey of the Kings River in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The survey is meant to assess the health of the river and the fish populations. Scientists and volunteers captured fish in the river through a unique and the fish populations. Scientists and…

Groundwater

SJV on VPR!

June 4, 2021

• by Lois Henry

Valley Public Radio in Fresno interviewed me about SJV Water’s story on subsidence in Corcoran that ran in the New York Times. TAKE A LISTEN!…

Drought

California’s mountains are dry. Now we know how dry

June 2, 2021

• by Lois Henry

In a pitifully dry year like 2021, understanding the state’s skimpy snowpack is critical. Multi-million dollar decisions can hinge on even the smallest amounts of snow melt squeezed out of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Which makes information provided by Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc. flights vital, according to water managers. “Right now, there’s still 10,000 to…

Personalities • State System

New leaders named to Kern water districts

March 23, 2021

• by Lois Henry

The personnel deck of who’s who in Kern County water has shuffled recently at several agricultural water districts. The Rosedale-Rio Bravo and North Kern water storage districts both recently named new general managers. And the newly formed Westside Water Authority, made up of four different ag water districts, also brought on a new general manager….

Floods • Rivers

Kings River floodwater dispute goes to the state

January 26, 2021

• by Lois Henry

A bid by Kern County farmers to take Kings River floodwater officially got underway Tuesday as state regulators hashed out procedures and next steps with the various parties. An initial hearing had been set for April 15, but may now be pushed back to July, depending on how Administrative Hearing Officer Nicole Kuenzi rules. Kuenzi…

Rivers

“Unqualifiedly” in favor of Pine Flat Dam in 1918

July 13, 2020

• by Lois Henry

Jon Earnest, editor of the Reedley Exponent, found this gem of a story as he was searching the archives recently for stories on our last pandemic in 1918. Pine Flat Dam had not yet been built. Locals had to first form an irrigation district before moving forward with the Pine Flat Dam project on the…

Rivers • Uncategorized

Kings River fish fry (release)

March 3, 2020

• by Lois Henry

A gazillion baby rainbow trout were ready to stretch their fins and the Kings River Fisheries Management Program was there to help. On a warm February afternoon a handful of volunteers gathered at the nondescript trout incubator in the shadow of the Pine Flat Dam ready to set tens of thousands of fry free into…

NEWS

Funding to protect valley towns from flooding yanked out of budget even as climate change increases threat

Fight over Kings County pipeline just the latest clash between water titans

River rights battles in the San Joaquin Valley stuck in eddy

VIDEO: Shocking fish for science

SJV on VPR!

California’s mountains are dry. Now we know how dry

New leaders named to Kern water districts

Kings River floodwater dispute goes to the state

“Unqualifiedly” in favor of Pine Flat Dam in 1918

Kings River fish fry (release)

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