Bringing back the Kern River is naive. The city of Bakersfield has a plan to take a full 40% of the water that agriculture and industry need in order to
There is new information on the river siphons that were installed in the Kern River near the Coffee Road Bridge to help with the flow and protect a vital intersection of the river and several canals.
The western Kern County agricultural water district anticipates putting as many as 25 siphon tubes over what’s known as the “sand plug” next to the Coffee Road weir in the
The courts issued 16 published CEQA decisions in 2022, continuing a trend of fewer published opinions than the pattern established in earlier years. The only California Supreme Court.
The City of Bakersfield is being sued by multiple conservation groups for diverting the Kern River for its own benefit and the benefit of multiple water districts.