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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Although autumn has fallen, immoderate Valley residents are inactive cooling disconnected successful the San Joaquin River; however, PG&E warns that visitors should enactment retired of definite areas arsenic they program to merchandise damned water.
The inferior institution says they volition beryllium expanding flows on the 9-mile-long conception of stream betwixt the Kerckhoff Dam and Millerton Lake successful Fresno County starting Tuesday. The h2o releases volition summation from astir 25 to 500 cubic feet per 2nd (cfs) until Nov. 22, erstwhile the releases volition beryllium gradually reduced backmost to 25 cfs.
Due to the often challenging transition retired of the San Joaquin River Gorge, PG&E advises the nationalist to debar entering the h2o during the high-flow event.
PG&E says the merchandise is indispensable for them to beryllium capable to execute their yearly attraction enactment astatine the Kerckhoff 2 Powerhouse. Usually, the h2o is diverted from the Kerckhoff Reservoir to the powerhouse via a passageway and tube system; however, due to the fact that the powerhouse is not operating, each flows volition beryllium released to the San Joaquin River to support due h2o levels successful the reservoir.
