Friant-Kern Canal Historic American Engineering Record collection, 2021

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Summary

Creators:
Stantec Consulting and United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Abstract:
The collection contains the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation for the Friant-Kern Canal located in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties in California. The documentation, which includes a written report, photographs, drawings, and negatives, was compiled by Stantec Consulting Services on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 2021.
Extent:
0.23 linear feet (1 box, 1 flat file folder)
Language:
The collection is in English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], [date if possible]. Friant-Kern Canal Historic American Engineering Record collection (WRCA 288). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation for the Friant-Kern Canal located in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties in California. The documentation, which includes a written report, photographs, drawings, and negatives, was compiled by Stantec Consulting Services on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 2021.

Biographical / historical:

The Friant-Kern Canal was completed in 1951 as part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project (CVP), a water transportation system that extends from the headwaters of the Sacramento River near Redding, California to the Kern River in Bakersfield, California. The canal is a primary component of the CVP, transporting water southward by gravity flow from the Friant Dam at the San Joaquin River near Fresno, California to the Kern River. It was designed to serve approximately 1 million acres of agricultural land through sixteen irrigation districts located on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley in Fresno, Kings, Tulare, and Kern counties.

The Friant-Kern Canal was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places due its contributions to the history of water conveyance systens and engineering. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) was created for the canal in preparation for the Friant-Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project, which was a major construction project started in 2021 to restore canal capacity lost due to land subsidence.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Stantec Consulting Services, Inc., 2025.
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian, 2025.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by format.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], [date if possible]. Friant-Kern Canal Historic American Engineering Record collection (WRCA 288). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Riverside - Special Collections and University Archives
PO Box 5900
Riverside, CA 92517-5900, US
Contact:
(951) 827-3233
specialcollections@ucr.edu
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