The steady drumbeat of support to get more water flowing in the Kern River through Bakersfield continued Tuesday at the State Water Resources Control Board.
During the public comment portion of the meeting three speakers from Bakersfield and Kern Countyâs political realm urged board members to finally hear â and grant â a decade-old petition by the City of Bakersfield to appropriate water on the river to run through the heart of town.
âFor too long, the Kern River has been a barren, unutilized resource left to desolate conditions,â said Jeff Flores, chief of staff for District 3 Kern County Supervisor Mike Maggard. âA dry riverbed strewn with homeless camps and tumbleweeds serves no one well.â
Kern County experiences the highest number of COVID-19 cases with over 2,000 reported
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â Tuesday morning Director of Public Health Matt Constantine announced in front of the Board of Supervisors, the single highest case rate of COVID-19 cases in Kern County: 2,082. Constantine noted that nearly 800 of those cases were from prisons or skilled nursing facilities.
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Constantine also reported on the San Joaquin regionâs ICU capacity, which Kern is considered a part of. As of Tuesday at 12 p.m. the state will report that the regionâs ICU capacity is at 1.6-percent.