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…
The Kings River Fisheries Management Program (KRFMP) was launched in 1999 through cooperation between the Kings River Conservation District (KRCD), Kings River Water Association (KRWA), and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), to enhance the fisheries of the Kings River and Pine Flat Reservoir. Management goals were established for Pine Flat Reservoir and…
Kings River Conservation District is proud to announce that U.S. Department of Energy’s (@energy) Grid Deployment Office selected Kings River Conservation District to receive up to $5,000,000 as part of an investment from the “Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity Incentives” program. The funds will support our work at the Jeff L. Taylor Pine Flat Power Plant–strengthening…
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.…
June 6, 2024 Report provided by: Matthew Meadows, Assistant Watermaster The Army Corps of Engineers flood release requirement at Pine Flat will end tonight at midnight, on June 6, 2024 at 00:01 hours no flood release target below Crescent Weir. All releases into the Kings River were only sufficient to meet irrigation demands of Kings…
May 28, 2024 Report provided by: Matthew Meadows, Assistant Watermaster The Army Corps of Engineers will begin flood releases from Pine Flat at midnight. The target flow at Crescent Weir will be approximately 200 cfs on Wednesday May 29, 2024, at 00:01 hours with a minimum 7,000 cfs release from Pine Flat. Current releases from Pine…
May 15, 2024 Report provided by: Matthew Meadows, Assistant Watermaster The Army Corps of Engineers flood release requirement at Pine Flat will end at midnight, on May 16, 2024 at 00:01 hours no flood release target below Crescent Weir. All releases into the Kings River are only sufficient to meet irrigation demands of Kings River…