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.…
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…