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Designated. November 24, 1987. The Kern River, previously Río de San Felipe, later La Porciúncula, is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately 165 miles (270 km) long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield.
Camanche Reservoir. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Camanche Reservoir is an artificial lake in the San Joaquin Valley in California in the United States, at the juncture of Amador, Calaveras, and San Joaquin counties. Its waters are impounded by Camanche Dam, which was completed in 1963.
September 19, 2024 at 3:00 AM. Dead fish lie on the dry bottom of the Kern River in Bakersfield. (Gary Kazanjian / For The Times) Over the last three weeks, ecologist Rae McNeish and her students ...
Its crest is 481 feet (147 m) about sea level, and it belongs to the Jackson Valley Irrigation District. [2] The reservoir's capacity is 22,000 acre-feet (27,000,000 m 3). [2] Lake Amador was the site of the Gold Rush rock music festival on October 4, 1969. [4] Performers included Ike & Tina Turner, Santana, Bo Diddley, Albert Collins, and Taj ...
At the edge of a clearing, she came upon the bare, sunbleached skeletons of dead trees. She said satellite data had revealed that parts of the forest died along this part of the Kern River during ...
The Seven Teacups trail in the Sierra Nevada, in which three friends tragically lost their lives trying to save one another, had "significant flowing water" and other potential challenges for hikers.
The South Fork Kern River is a tributary of the Kern River in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. It is one of the southernmost rivers on the western slope of the mountains, and drains a high, relatively dry plateau country of 982 square miles (2,540 km 2) along the Sierra Crest. The upper South Fork flows through a series of ...
Reservoir Dam River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) ; Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek