Built to replace it is sinking as well. Were talking about the Friant Kern Canal near the San Joaquin Valley. The system starts at Millerton Lake north of fresno and runs 152 miles south powered entirely by gravity, but gravity means going downhill and that has gotten complicated, simple as it sound. Decades of groundwater pumping have caused valley floors to sink and the canal right along with it. To convey this water south through this section, weve lost over 60 of the carrying capacity. So we first showed you the solution back in august 2022. It is a new canal built right alongside the old one, only its higher so the water can still flow downhill. That new canal will go into service in the next couple weeks and as Wilson Walker shows us, its already facing the very same challenge as the first one. Reporter youre looking at in the foreground the old canal and over that dirt pile there is the new canal. This is typically an image people look at and think oh, my gosh, what kind of prob
Two San Joaquin Valley water districts voted to break away from the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency this month, clearing a path for them to form their own agencies and groundwater plans in the next six months.
It s been more than two years in the making – actually decades in the making – but the completion of the first phase of much needed repairs to the Friant-Kern
The United Stateds Department of Interior, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Friant Water Authority, San Luis and Delta-Mendota Authority and the San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority announced a groundbreaking
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Tulare County deputies rescued a dog stuck in a canal around midnight Wednesday. Deputies say they were called to the area of Avenue 250 and Road 224, just north of Lindsay, for a dog stuck in the Friant-Kern Canal. Deputies used ropes to get the dog out of the canal. […]