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The dam forms Lake Kaweah for flood control and irrigation water supply. Completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 1962, Terminus is an earthfill dam 255 ft (78 m) high and 2,375 ft (724 m) long. The reservoir has a maximum capacity of 185,600 acre⋅ft (0.2289 km 3) of water, although it usually sits at much lower levels.
The State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to put the Tulare Lake subbasin on probation during a precedent-setting meeting in Sacramento that stretched over nine hours.
What exactly is in the water, as far as pesticides, chemicals and bacteria, remains somewhat of a mystery, said Rose Mary Rahn, director of the Kings County Department of Public Health. The ...
Laurel Firestone is a co-founder of the Community Water Center, a statewide nonprofit. She served on the Tulare County Water Commission from 2007 to 2012, and was appointed to the board in February 2019. [13] Nichole Morgan served as an Assistant Deputy Director in the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Financial Assistance.
Lake Kaweah is a reservoir near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California.The lake is formed by Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River.The river originates in the Sierra Nevada and drains about 560 sq mi (1,500 km 2) into Lake Kaweah before flowing towards the San Joaquin Valley.
Mehdi Mizani, deputy state flood plain manager for the Department of Water Resources, estimated that the volume of water in Tulare Lake is likely to approach or exceed 620,000 acre-feet by the end ...
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The State Water Resources Control Board’s attempt to intervene was slowed this month when a judge in Kings County issued an order temporarily putting on hold the state’s determination and ...