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The USGS stream gauge on the North Fork Kern River has recorded an average annual mean discharge of 806 cubic feet per second (23 m 3 /s) and a maximum daily discharge of 33,600 cu ft/s (950 m 3 /s), and the gauge on the South Fork Kern River shows an average annual mean discharge of 123 cu ft/s (3.5 m 3 /s) and a maximum daily discharge of ...
Ward 3 – Ken Weir [2] Ward 4 – Bob Smith [2] Ward 5 (Southwest – Seven Oaks) – Bruce Freeman [2] Ward 6 (Southwest – Stockdale) – Patty Gray [2] Ward 7 (South Bakersfield) – Manpreet Kaur [2] Region names are not exact since district (ward) boundaries are based on population.
The city also condemned the first 77,000 acre-feet (95,000,000 m 3) of Kern River water and wanted payment for damages to any party that violated it. The action never made it to court because Tenneco West would settle with the city. [3] In 1973, Tenneco West would agree to sell all its water rights to the Kern River (about 1/3 of the total ...
Conservation groups sued to try to prevent the Kern River from running dry in Bakersfield. A judge ordered the city to ensure water remains in the river.
The Kern Water Bank is a public-private partnership which oversees a 32-square-mile water recharge basin in California. [1] [2] It sources water from the Kern River, the State Water Project, and the Central Valley Project. [3] It stores underground up to 1.5 million acre feet of water (500 billion gallons). [4]
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.
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Kern County deputy sheriffs and search and rescue workers retrieve a dead body from the Keyesville South area of the Kern River, in Lake Isabella, Calif., on July 1, 2017. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles ...