Title:
Friant Kern Canal Friant Dam Friant California
Creator:
[Unknown]
Subject:
Irrigation -- California -- Fresno County -- Photographs.
Flood control -- California -- Fresno County -- Photographs.
Dams -- California -- Fresno County -- Photographs.
Friant-Kern Canal (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Friant Dam (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Fresno County (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 20th century -- Photographs.
Description:
Friant Dam pictured here was classified as ready for service in November 1944. In July 1945 Peter Kiewit & Sons Company of
Omaha, Nebraska was awarded the contract to build the Friant-Kern Canal. The Friant-Kern Canal outlet works are located on
the left side of the spillway. The canal travels in a southerly direction over 152 miles carrying water from Millerton Lake
to the Kern River four miles west of Bakersfield. Excavation work began in August 1945. On July 9, 1949, 2,500 people watched
a former Reclamation location engineer and a citrus grower from the town of Lindsay usher in the first delivery of water.
The system became fully operational on June 29, 1951. Except for the Delta-Mendota Canal, the Friant-Kern is the largest lined
canal in the West.
Publisher:
Fresno County Library
Date:
ca. 1945
Format:
1 Photographic print :b&w ;9 x 14 cm.
Identifier:
frp0159
Relation:
San Joaquin Valley Digitization Project
Fresno County Free Library. California History and Genealogy Room.
Rights:
This image is being made available for educational and research purposes only, under the fair use clause of the U.S. Copyright
Law (Title 17 § 107 U.S.C.) Further questions regarding the image or its use may be directed to the California History and
Genealogy Room, Fresno County Public Library, 2420 Mariposa St., Fresno, CA 93721-2285; (559) 488-3195, press #3, then #5.