Join 23ABC on a tour of one of the oldest power plants in Kern County. Ted Sorenson is an ... up to 11.5 megawatts of electricity when the river is full enough to divert the full 600 CFS.

Consuming three times as much water as the native plants it displaces, arundo has become a problem that must be managed, said Vice President Bill Cooper of the Kern River Parkway Foundation.

Southern California Edison’s Kern River No. 1 power plant ... With one of the city’s main treatment plants also offline for maintenance, according to Budak, the water being released by ...

(KERO) — An unknown substance was recently found in the water of the Kern River ... the sources of intake off of the river for our treatment plants, and we will be monitoring the treated ...

The Kern River has long been a dry riverbed in downtown ... McNeish stopped at a dry depression and poked her yardstick into tangled aquatic plants, finding dead tadpoles. Where days earlier ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — Colorful awnings and tents lined the shores of the Kern River on a Saturday afternoon at Riverside Park in the small town of Kernville in the southern Sierra Nevada ...

Without water, rare plants and endangered animals like the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew and San Joaquin kit fox struggle to survive. The city of Bakersfield is the administrator and manager of all ...

Commenters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urged it to reject Edison’s proposed minimum stream flows in its draft license application and adopt a proposal by the Kern River Boaters ...

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 ...

Good environmental cause or not, no one was really expecting teenagers to show up on time on a weekend morning to labor outdoors in the heat for free. But sure enough, at 9 a.m. Saturday, a group ...