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We may be one step closer to getting water back in the Kern River. The State Water Resources Control board has set a hearing for Oct. 26-28 to hear testimony and sift through evidence about whether as much as 120,000 acre feet of river water is up for grabs after a water district was found to have forfeited it in 2007. The city has argued that the water is out there for the taking and they want it to run down the river. Imagine! A river in our river bed! “This is the first stage of a two-stage process,” said Florn Core, Bakersfield’s water resources director. This hearing will be very technical as the city and several water districts argue the fine legal points of whether unappropriated water is truly available. Core said he feels the city has a strong case because during a 12-year-long legal battle over this very water, several lower courts found it was available, but the final decision had to be made by the Water Resources Control board. At least four...
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