![]() ![]() ![]() The river snakes down from the mountains unabated and spills out into the valley floor, branching into little braids of creeks and sloughs before coalescing to the southwest in Tulare Lake. As the general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, his job is to help manage the water coming out of the Terminus Dam.Ī map on the wall of his office's conference room shows the Kaweah watershed as it was in 1885, before people controlled the river's flow. Mark Larsen is one of the tens of thousands of people living downstream from Lake Kaweah. The emptier the reservoir, the bigger the speed bump, and the less likely people downstream are to have high flows of water coming their way. A tall strip of chalk-white rock showing where water levels used to be rings the rock shores of Lake Kaweah - the reservoir that's filled behind the dam. ![]() Watson and dam operators up and down the Sierra Nevada continue to dump water downstream in preparation for the big melt, essentially emptying the bathtub before the faucets turn back on. ![]() NPR The reservoir just before the Terminus Dam has been emptied to make space for the expected water from the coming snowmelt. ![]()
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