Kern River Boaters FERC Project No. 2290 Prototype, not yet public

On the Record

Say what you know about the Kern. We’ll help you put it on the record.

Edison has applied for a new license to keep taking the North Fork Kern out of its bed at Fairview Dam. Three agencies decide the terms. This page turns what you have seen on the river into a comment in your own words, which you file yourself.

Agencies weigh most what only you can tell them: what you saw, where, and when. Ten to fifteen minutes. Nothing you type is saved.

Fairview Dam in August 2021: the flume carries the river along the road while a thin channel continues below the dam
Fairview Dam, August 2021. The river leaves in the flume along the road; what is left goes down the channel. Photo: Kern River Boaters.