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A canal carrying water from the Kings River in the San Joaquin Valley. Almost all of the Kings River's water is consumed for agriculture. The river irrigates about 1.1 million acres (4,500 km 2) [22] of some of the most productive farmland in the United States; in 2009 the Kings delta produced crops valued at more than $3 billion. [22]
Later in the day, the office extended the warning to any homes and businesses along the Kings River from the Fresno County line to the Kings County line. “The Kings River water flow is expected ...
Residents living near Rio Vista Road on the Kings River in eastern Fresno County watch a swollen creek as water passes below a wooden bridge after heavy rain and mountain runoff inundated the area ...
David Merritt, general manager for the Kings River Conservation District, said the Pine Flat Reservoir about 50 miles (80 kilometers) upstream can hold up to 1 million acre feet of water, but is ...
Fresno Slough is a distributary of the Kings River that connects the North Fork Kings River to the San Joaquin River in San Joaquin Valley, Kings County, California.. Until 1879 when irrigation diversions prevented it, Fresno Slough was also an outlet of the overflow waters of Tulare Lake into the San Joaquin River in flood years, when its level topped the 210 foot elevation.
The North Fork Kings River is a 40.3-mile (64.9 km) [2] tributary of the Kings River, in the U.S. state of California. The river's main stem is entirely within Fresno County , and its watershed drains about 387 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother are dead after they were swept away Sunday in a California river closed to recreational users because of high water levels, authorities said.
Dinkey Creek is a large stream in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California. The creek is 29.2 miles (47.0 km) long, [2] flowing undammed in a southerly direction through the Sierra National Forest. It is a tributary of the North Fork Kings River, in turn part of the Kings River system which drains into the de-watered Tulare Lake ...