
Lois Henry
SJV WaterLois Henry is the CEO/Editor of SJV Water.
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In what one attorney called a “moment of truth” for the City of Bakersfield, a judge ordered the city to keep enough water in the normally dry Kern River to protect fish populations.
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Landowners and residents who live in front of the Auxiliary Dam at Lake Isabella are being swamped by “seepage” coming through the earthen dam that is ruining septic systems, causing sinkholes, clogging the area with weeds and breeding swarms of mosquitoes.
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Subsidence – caused by too much groundwater pumping – is causing a recurring, multimillion dollar headache for local flood officials.
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A new bulletin from the Department of Water Resources estimates how much water is expected downstream as the snow melts.
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While DWR Director Karla Nemeth and her team are hearing from counties about needed resources, they are also assessing the state’s authority to intervene, if needed.
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Flooding hot spots – and some new ones thanks to subsidence – could be swamped.
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The information gleaned from the aerial surveys will give water managers a much clearer picture of what to expect when spring runoff begins.
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Several public interest groups sued the City of Bakersfield Nov. 30 alleging the city has been derelict in its operation of the Kern River by diverting most of its flows to agriculture and other uses leaving a dry riverbed through the heart of town.
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The City of Bakersfield Water Resources Department has cut off flows to city-owned recreation and water recharge facilities to hold on to what little surface water it’s receiving from the dwindling Kern River for drinking water.
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Since Gov. Newsom's emergency drought order on March 28, Kern County hasn’t issued a single agricultural well permit. Frustration in the ag community is at a boiling point.