Talk:Kern River

Map and infobox

I've been thinking of making maps for the Tulare Basin rivers for a while, and finally got around to trying one. I figured I'd start with the southernmost, the Kern River. Due to the strange nature of the Tulare Basin's hydrography, along with the major diversions and irrigation canals, dry lakes, etc, the map is challenging. Let me know if it has mistakes or is confusing or could be improved in whatever way. On the map and in the infobox I made the Kern's mouth be Buena Vista Lake Bed, even if little or no water actually reaches this mouth. My main reason is that this is the mouth coordinates and name given by the USGS. But I am not an expert on the hydrography of the southern Central Valley, so if there is a better way to map this river let me know! Thanks. I'll try to get around to fleshing out the infobox a little and perhaps adding to the main text and working on the many redlinks. I'll also try to add the Kern's watershed to the map, and maybe California county lines, unless they just result in too much map clutter. Pfly (talk) 23:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

• So far so good! By the way, the river has been all lovely and full this last few weeks -- it's already been higher than it was all last year. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 03:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• I built a whitewater guide and map for the Kern river, would this be helpful at all for this page? For example, Lower KernUcsbmatt (talk) 23:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Kern river

What was the very first name of the current river what did the Indians call it ?

Todd Bassett (talk) 23:08, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Dry Riverbed in Town

One of items that would help add clarity to this article on The Kern River should be information regarding the dry riverbed that runs through town.

This 10 miles of Kern River that runs through Bakersfield is dry because of decades of business deals.

It would be very fascinating to trace out the history of these deals, the reason that we have 10 miles of dry river, along with many of the movements locally to bring back the Kern.

Related to this is also much missing information on the dams along the Kern, the impact of the hydroelectric power that’s produced, the impact on the native and indigenous fish species, and the non-operational hatchery that is still receiving flow from the river instead of flowing in the river. Timothy (talk) 00:26, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Yep, there's a lot to add! Have at it! If you have some good resources other editors could draw upon for this sort of stuff, post them here here if you don't want to expand the article yourself. Fascinating history, fascinating geography, fascinating geology. By the way, I'm writing this from 1000 yards upstream of KR3. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:43, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

@Timmcneely: Oh, good work! Thanks! --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 06:09, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

KR3 and the relicensing of the Dam would be very interesting too. The history of KR3 being build to power the redcars in Los Angeles could be its own section too! Timothy (talk) 03:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

wow, a year's change...sure isn't dry right now! --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:44, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

KERN RIVER 3 HYDROELECTRIC SYSTEM

It would be very interesting to see the different dams and some of the history of each dam on the Kern River

Here are some starting resources.

https://www.loc.gov/item/ca4065/

https://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ca/ca4000/ca4065/data/ca4065data.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timmcneely (talk • contribs) 04:00, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

2023 California floods

could use updating for the re-appearance of the river's water after atmospheric rivers brought the 2022–2023 California floods but my source is "i live here and see it" (primary source / original research) Mattman00000 (talk) 23:16, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah. National news sources have picked up on it, something will show up. 23:45, 17 July 2023 (UTC)