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The Kern River Parkway Trail is a system of hiking and biking trails that extends along the Kern River from the mouth of the canyon to Hart Park in Bakersfield, California. The trail system is part of the larger Kern River Parkway, which includes several parks, picnic areas, and green spaces along the river.
As a result, the city, and the surrounding agricultural water districts requested a court decree establishing water rights to the Kern River, and establishing groundwater rights within the city. 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 ...
This is a list of elected officials serving in the city of Bakersfield, California. They include: city officials , city council members, California state representatives, and United States federal representatives.
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 Kern River — a major river in central California, flowing from the southern Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin Valley, within Kern County and Tulare County. Part of the Tulare Basin watershed , and a former tributary of the San Joaquin River before late 19th century diversions for agriculture and the Central Valley Project .
Water from Lake Isabella can be used in any of three ways. It is released into the Lower Kern River from the main dam, through the hydroelectric project in the main dam, or through the hydroelectric project in the auxiliary dam. The design capacity of the release channel (the Lower Kern River) is over 8,000 cubic feet per second (230 m 3 /s).
At 11,000 acres (4,500 ha), it is one of the larger reservoirs in California. Lake Isabella is located about 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Bakersfield, and is the main water supply for that city. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks.
Calloway Canal is an irrigation canal owned by the North Kern Water Storage District in Kern County, California. It originates from the Kern River, just east of Golden State Highway (SR 204 freeway) in Bakersfield. It terminates at reservoirs located south of Whisler Road and east of SR 99 (Golden State Freeway), near McFarland. [1]