Lengthy Friant-Kern Dewatering Process Is Nearing An End A three-and-a-half month Friant Water Authority maintenance blitz that featured an all-out battle against a voracious aquatic weed known as Western water milfoil has come to an end. For the first time…
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Construction and Maintenance activities of the Friant Kern Canal
Canal Milfoil Fight Is Nearly Completed
Canal Milfoil Fight Is Nearly Completed After months of preparation and weeks of drying out and removing silt from lengthy reaches of the Friant-Kern Canal, the main event has been completed in the Friant Water Authority’s fight against a voracious…
Storm Activity Remains Light
There has been some storm activity so far this fall. It’s just there hasn’t been much of it. The result is an early deficiency from average in valley rain and Sierra snow, although there has been a little precipitation with…
Canal Milfoil Fight Beginning With Dewatering
Water levels are dropping in the Friant-Kern Canal, and troops, equipment and key tools are all in place as the Friant Water Authority launches its biggest fight yet in an attempt to control and hopefully eliminate a pesky aquatic weed, the…