Parts of the western United States saw snow water equivalent levels 200% to 300% higher than normal. By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service Much of the West Coast is experiencing a welcome break from years of historic drought due to...
Written by Robert Shibatani This past month has seen the much-anticipated ablation of this year’s record-breaking snowpack. The big resulting news was that it did not translate into the Statewide record-breaking flood that many in the media were predicting, at...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The old Buena Vista Lake bed in Kern County will remain mostly dry and continue being farmed by the J.G. Boswell Company despite the coming, epic snow melt. But unlike in Kings County where Boswell...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water It isn’t just water that’s been barreling down the Kern River in this historic water year. Trees, shrubs, trash – even old appliances – have come swirling down the river bed, plucked out by heavy...
