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…
May 3, 2024 Report provided by: Matthew Meadows, Assistant Watermaster The Army Corps of Engineers will begin low level flood releases from Pine Flat at midnight. The target flow at Crescent Weir will be 200 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Saturday May 4, 2024, at 00:01 hours. Current releases from Pine Flat are approximately…
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…
Kings Watershed Snowpack Still Below Average Despite Recent Storms FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Sierra Snowpack Conditions within the Kings River watershed have improved in February 2024, with several storms delivering snow and rain to the region. Snow surveyors are collecting samples in the high elevations of eastern Fresno and Tulare counties for the California Cooperative Snow Survey.…
ACWA Region 6 & 7 Tour & Water Forum, Oct. 12 & 13, 2023 The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Region 6 & 7 Tour and Water Forum was held on October 12 and 13. Harris Ranch in Coalinga served as the home base for the two-day event. Day 1’s tour was attended by…
DWR video celebrates more than 20 years of Integrated Regional Water Management Story courtesy of: Soua Lee, Program Manager, Kings Basin Water Authority “IRWM (Integrated Regional Water Management) started in our region in 2001 with Fresno Irrigation District, Alta Irrigation District, Consolidated Irrigation District, and Kings River Conservation District coming together to develop implementable solutions to…
Kings River’s 2022-23 Runoff Sets a Record Prepared By: RANDY McFARLAND, Public Information Consultant THE 2023-24 WATER YEAR still has a week to go but Kings River runoff has already established an all-time record as a result of the past winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowstorms and significant summer rainfall. The Kings River Water Association now…