For far too long, the people of California – especially those of us in the agriculturally vital San Joaquin Valley – have ...

On Wednesday, the MID started releasing more water through those dams. The Merced River flow near Snelling will significantly increase until it reaches its goal of 2,600 cubic feet per second.

MID owns and operates Lake McClure on the Merced River, and delivers water to about 2,200 growers farming on approximately 132,000 acres in eastern Merced County. Andrew Kuhn Sun-Star file As the ...

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- In Merced County residents are being told to stay away from the Merced River and other waterways. It comes as the US Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the flow of ...

timing of water application and reuse of irrigation water can in many cases supply multiples of what a sacrificed Merced River would yield. Here, the balance championed in the Wild and Scenic ...

Merced Irrigation District and Merced ... can take to keep yourself are Avoid entering the river: Due to the swift currents and elevated water levels, swimming, fishing, and boating are strongly ...

But the severity and duration of the 2022 decline of the river in this case, the Merced, where one stream gauge showed zero water moving past it nearly every day from June to early October ...

And in some cases, little or no water has been left flowing. After a stretch of the Merced River ran dry during the severe drought in the summer and early fall of 2022, federal fisheries officials ...

With snowmelt continuing to fill the river with fast-moving, ice-cold water, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke announced Thursday night that waterways including the river are off-limits to recreation.

The state announcement that it will curtail diversions of water has led to speculation that it plans to tap into the water now stored in irrigation district reservoirs. Modesto Bee Some folks ...

The Merced River in Yosemite Valley has reached flood ... Moderate flood stage there is 10 feet. Because of high water caused by melting of the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the Yosemite Valley ...