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(KERO) — The Kern County Fire Department has created new flood maps that aim to identify areas along the Kern River that are susceptible to potential flooding. One of the areas identified as ...
The Kern River is evolving this spring and will continue for the next several weeks, right through the summer. The Office of Emergency Services updated the flood maps earlier in the month.
The Kern River is rising fast ... Where’s it going to flood? Wednesday, the Kern County Office of Emergency Services put out detailed, locally built maps that attempt to answer that question ...
OILDALE, Calif. — Preparing for the threat of massive flooding during California’s “Big Melt,” federal engineers have been releasing more Kern River water from Lake Isabella than is ...
The Kern River Oil Field ... Alsop said that as the county awaits maps from the state Department of Water Resources showing where flooding might happen in Kern, its biggest concerns include ...
13—It's been a winter of massive snowfall and torrential rain in the Kern River Valley and the mountains ... travel woes, flooding, evacuation orders and uncertainty. But it's not over.
The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that officials have opened a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be ...
River gauges detected rivers in major flood stage in 19 locations, according to a flood inundation map from the National Water Center. Moderate flooding was detected in 58 locations, and minor ...
Chevron Corp. is shutting in some of its production in the Kern River Oil Field to minimize chances of an oil spill in case the unprecedented snowpack above Isabella Lake leads to flooding near ...