Tag: Friant Kern Canal

Supplies Continue To Dwindle

Southern California Edison Company’s Huntington Lake, at the 7,000 foot elevation in Fresno County, is usually nearly full until Labor Day. Because of the drought, its storage as July was concluding was less than 42% of its capacity.

Supplies Continue To Dwindle Storage Declines; Friant Still At Zero It’s only the beginning of August but there is now less water stored in the nine San Joaquin River reservoirs than the total storage capacity of Millerton Lake. The U.S.…

Water Curtailments

Water Curtailments Junior Rights Holders Told To Stop Diverting; State Board May Consider Senior Rights Cuts It probably doesn’t mean much to users of the Friant-Kern and Madera canals who are going without Central Valley Project supplies this year but…

DROUGHT CONTINUES

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DROUGHT CONTINUES Friant Users Scramble For Alternative Water Supplies A tiny amount of water has begun flowing in the Friant-Kern Canal as Friant Division contractors and users scramble to try to mitigate their looming losses and drought conditions by acquiring…

Drought Impact: 0% Friant Supply

NO WATER

Drought’s Impact: 0% Friant Supply Bureau of Reclamation officials’ first 2014 Friant Division supply declaration told Friant water users the bad news they had been expecting – that there currently is no Central Valley Project water to declare. Fourteen drought…

IRRIGATED LANDS REGULATORY PROGRAM

Lawsuit Over Water Quality Rules Rejected An about-face by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge may have cleared the way for the Central California Regional Water Quality Control Board to proceed with approval and implementation of its controversial southern San…

FKC Getting Back In Business

Flows and demands are still very low but water is again flowing through the Friant-Kern Canal (as viewed near Academy,  northeast of Clovis). Deliveries are resuming after a dewatering period of nearly four months to permit  chemical treatments aimed at…