While Friant Dam releases thousands of gallons, farmers hope water storage project is the answer for the future. Water being let out of Friant dam in an effort to make room for rain water.

Friant Dam's max capacity is 528,000 acre-feet. The dam just reached over 4 million acre-feet through the system this month, which is eight times the amount of Millerton Lake.

Prolonged flood releases into the San Joaquin River from the Friant Dam aren’t necessarily great news for farmers whose fields are underwater. Nor for residents of cities and communities along ...

Water releases can be seen from Friant Dam at Millerton Lake in Friant where lake levels have reached more than 80 percent-full following several atmospheric river events, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023.

Prolonged flood releases into the San Joaquin River from the Friant Dam aren’t necessarily great news for farmers whose fields are underwater. Nor for residents of cities and communities along ...

Friant Dam releases water from Millerton Lake into the San Joaquin River, foreground, Saturday, July 15, 2023 near Friant. Advertisement. About Our Ads; Solve the daily Crossword.

Agriculture and the Friant Dam, built in the 1940s, dried up a 60-mile stretch of the river. After a long, tortuous effort, a chinook spawns 10 miles downstream from the dam.

Except Friant Dam is shared between the district represented by Congressman Tom McClintock, who could care less about Fresno, and a district that has no representation on Capitol Hill whatsoever.

Still, Friant Dam, which impounds the San Joaquin River, and Pine Flat Dam, which captures the Kings River, are designed and managed so differently that any discussion of the two must be separated.

Water stored behind a dam east of Fresno will be tapped for the first time in decades as water officials looks for ways to alleviate the effects of a third-consecutive dry year.

Motorists traveling to Table Mountain Casino or Millerton Lake may have noticed something unusual going on at the Friant Dam. Water flowing over the dam and into the San Joaquin River thanks to an ...

Prolonged flood releases into the San Joaquin River from the Friant Dam aren’t necessarily great news for farmers whose fields are underwater. Nor for residents of cities and communities along ...