Bringing Local Water History to Life: A Collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Kings County In 2025, the Carnegie Museum of Kings County unveiled a two-part exhibition titled A History of Kings County Agriculture. The exhibition explores the past, present, and future of farming and water use in our region. The exhibit begins with the…
Vision for the Future of Hydro Content is from recent feature in Hydro Leader magazine (by Kris Polly): Volume 6 Issue 8 September 2025 – Hydro Leader In our cover story this month, we speak with David Merritt, the general manager of the Kings River Conservation District. The district is actively building a new hydro…
National Hydropower Day 2025 Every year on August 24, the National Hydropower Association recognizes the essential role hydropower plays in delivering clean, renewable, and reliable energy to communities across the United States. For more than 140 years, hydropower has provided carbon-free electricity, supporting water supply, recreation, flood control, and grid reliability. Hydropower isn’t just about…
Why Airborne Snow Observatories Are Essential for Water Management Our region’s water security begins high in the mountains. Snowpack acts as the state’s largest natural reservoir, melting each year to provide the water that sustains our farms, cities, ecosystems, and hydropower generation. To achieve the most accurate forecasting of how much water is stored in…
Spring 2025 Bird Survey Complete: Protecting Nesting Birds During Levee Maintenance As we enter the busiest season for levee maintenance and habitat work, our team has wrapped up its spring bird survey. These surveys are a key part of our preparation process, helping us avoid disturbing nesting birds while continuing essential work along the levee…
Kings River Snow Surveys Indicate Lower Water Supplies Than Last Year It wasn’t a miracle March of storms, but it also wasn’t madness for the water supply. Recent snowfall events draped much of the Kings River’s watershed in white, last month’s storms boosted the snowpack’s frozen supply to 79% normal for April 1. Although that…
Kings Watershed Snowpack Doubled, Still Less than Normal, Season’s Second Survey Finds FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Sierra snowpack conditions within the Kings River watershed have improved in February, bolstered by a decent storm. Despite snow water content being twice what surveyors found last month, conditions remain drier than at the same time last year. Those were the findings…
Kings Watershed Snowpack Is Well Below Average, Season’s First Survey Finds FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Sierra Snowpack Conditions within the Kings River watershed are low, but marginally higher than last year. Those were the findings of this season’s first measurements by Kings River Water Association (KRWA) and other California Cooperative Snow Survey partners in the mountains of…
June 14, 2024 Contact: Danielle Parra Vista Consulting on behalf of KRWA, Cell: 559-360-9229 Fresno, CA – Pine Flat Reservoir’s water storage is full thanks to the Sierra Nevada snow melt. At noon on Tuesday, June 11, the reservoir reached the seasonal peak at 99.2%, or 992,855 acre-feet, of the nearly one million acre-feet capacity.…
Late Winter Storms Boost Kings River Water Supply To Near Normal Seasonal Conditions *NEWS RELEASE* FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: IT WASN’T EXACTLY A MIRACLE BUT LATE WINTER storms provided repeated snowfall events that draped much of the Kings River’s watershed in white. While far less than overall snow totals that piled up during the Kings’ all-time record…