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The Buena Vista Lake basin is an arid area and the Kern River is the only significant water supply. Ongoing conflicts between urban and agricultural interests complicate management decisions, in recent years owing to the expiration of some long-term contractual agreements.
Swift River Reservation is located along the east branch. Swift River Academy buildings. The former Academy at Swift River was located in Plainfield, Massachusetts. It is now a drug addiction treatment facility. [4] Letting Swift River Go, a picture book by Jane Yolen with watercolor illustrations by Barbara Cooney, describes the flooding of ...
Connecting Slough, the former slough between Kern Lake and Buena Vista Lake in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. [1] It was part of the Tulare Lake Basin and Kern River system, before agricultural diversions by the Central Valley Project. It was a tributary of the San Joaquin River until the latter 19th century.
In times when Buena Vista Lake overflowed it first backed up into Kern Lake making one large lake. When this larger lake overflowed it flowed out through the Buena Vista Slough that began southeast of what is now Tupman where it met the Kern River distributary channel to the San Joaquin River It then ran northwest from there through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into Tulare Lake west of the ...
Kern Lake, [1] was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California.. It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River.
Buena Vista Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California. It originates from the Carrier Canal at Coffee Road. The canal terminates at Lake Webb (and Buena Vista Lakebed) and the Kern River. [1] From the diversion, the canal travels southwest (although it is routed around California State University, Bakersfield).
Swift River is the name of a Yukon town and several rivers: Canada. Swift River (Cottonwood River), British Columbia; Swift River (Teslin Lake), British Columbia ...
The Swift River rises in the township of Livermore, New Hampshire, on the eastern side of Kancamagus Pass, and flows east into a broad valley, surrounded by mountains, known as the Albany Intervale. Leaving the intervale, the river enters a narrow gorge, passing over two sets of small waterfalls, and continues east through the town of Albany to ...