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Excerpt from Operations at River Stations, 1899, Vol. 5: A Report of the Division of Hydrography of the United States Geological Survey
This river issues from the southern extremity of the Sierra Nevada, being formed by the junction of the North Fork and the South Fork a short distance below Kernville. The run-off from this basin is notably less than from the northern tributaries of San Joaquin River, which may be due to the fact that a portion of the basin is located-east of the main crest of the mountains and is therefore protected from the water-bearing clouds. Most of the water of Kern River is used forirrigation by the large canals in the southern end of San Joaquin Valley. The winter waters are in part stored in Buena Vista Lake, which was a number of years ago converted into a storage reservoir. The station was established in 1893 by mr. Walter James, chief engineer of the Kern County Land Company, _a'nd is located at what is known as the first point of measurement, 5 miles above Bakers field and at the mouth of the canyon of the river. Meter measure ments are taken once a week, and an automatic gage records the ?uctuations of the river heights. Mr. A. K. Warren, the engineer in charge of this work for the Kern County Land Company, attends to the measurements with much accuracy and precision, and furnishes this office with the final results. The results of measurements may be found as follows: 1896, Eighteenth Annual Report, Part IV, page 297; 1897, Nineteenth Annual Report, Part IV, page 523; 1898, Twentieth Annual Report, Part IV, page 536.
Daily discharge, in second-feet, of Kern River at first point of measurement, California.
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