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First surveys for Pine Flat Dam.
Island flume built across Cole Slough near Kingsburg.
Fresno Canal Company buys Consolidated Canal Company; effectively controls half of Kings River service area.
Major flood event.

James Bypass developed to avoid meandering Fresno Slough channel.
Movement begins to develop Pine Flat Dam.
Legislature passes Pine Flat-KRCD Act; district is not organized.
Stratford Irrigation District formed.
Tranquillity Irrigation District formed.
Charles Kaupke becomes interim watermaster.

Reclamation of Summit Lake area completed southwest of Riverdale.
Fresno, Laguna, James and Riverdale irrigation districts formed.
Consolidated Irrigation District formed.
Water users ask state to develop temporary water diversion schedule.
First trial water entitlement schedule.
Worst Kings River drought on record.
Unsuccessful attempt made to form Kings River Water Storage District.
Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District formed.
KRWA and permanent entitlement schedules established.
First Kings River power plant developed at Balch Camp.
Riparian rights subjected to reasonable beneficial uses.

Empire West Side Irrigation District formed.
First groundwater recharging by Consolidated Irrigation District.
KRWA proposes that CVP develop Pine Flat Dam.
Congress assigns flood control to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Major flood events in February, November.
KRWA campaigns for Corps, not USBRCVP, to build Pine Flat Dam.

Corps, USBR complete Pine Flat feasibility studies.
Kings Canyon National Park formed, excludes reservoir sites in Cedar Grove, Tehipite Valley.
Flood Control Act authorizes Pine Flat as Corps project.
President Truman orders USBR to negotiate Pine Flat contracts.
Ground broken on Pine Flat Dam.
New master Kings River agreement signed.
Pine Flat Dam construction under way.
Legislative bid to place Kings River in CVP.

KRWA launches effort to form Kings River Conservation District.
Last major uncontrolled Kings River flood event.
KRCD established, ratified by voters.
KRCD negotiates interim Pine Flat contracts.
First Pine Flat Reservoir water storage.
Pine Flat Dam completed.
Kings River weather modification program begins.
Record Kings River flood flow captured safely in Pine Flat Reservoir.
PG&E completes Wishon, Courtright lakes and new North Fork power plants.
KRCD assumes lower river channel, levee operation, maintenance.

Interior Department makes bid to impose Reclamation Law, acreage limitation on Kings River.
Permanent Pine Flat contracts, new master Kings River agreement signed.
KRWA-CDFG fishery agreement signed.
Cedar Grove, Tehipite Valley reservoir sites annexed to Kings Canyon National Park.
KRCD, KRWA move into new Jensen Avenue offices.
State Board grants Kings River water rights permits.
First segment of levee, channel improvements developed.
State Board declares Kings to be “fully appropriated.”
Huge snowpack prompts largest-ever Pine Flat releases into river, 17,000 c.f.s.

Kings River appears to prevail in Reclamation Law test case.
Energy crisis spurs interest by KRCD in new power, reservoir projects.
Preliminary Federal Power Commission permit given for Pine Flat Power Plant.
Back-to-back critical drought years.
KRCD, KRWA agree on Pine Flat Power Plant water use.
KRCD voters authorize Pine Flat Power Plant bonds.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds Reclamation Law imposition.
KRCD applies to FERC for Dinkey Creek Power Project.
Pine Flat Power Plant EIS completed.
Pine Flat Power Plant water rights permit granted by state board.

Pine Flat Power Plant construction begins.
Congress relieves Kings River of Reclamation Law compliance.
Pine Flat Power Plant completed, dedicated.
Rodgers Crossing Dam feasibility study begins.
Lack of power buyer halts Dinkey Creek Project.
Federal legislation halts Rodgers Crossing Project.
Worst extended sequential critical drought of record.

Public trust complaint filed on fishery issues.
KRCD, KRWA pursue long-term fishery solution.
KRCD begins active involvement in Corps environmental studies.
KRCD forms the first of three Groundwater Management Areas to aid in effort to improve groundwater resources. 1997: Record calculated flow, 112,000 c.f.s., on January 3; Pine Flat Dam prevents downstream flooding.
KRCD, KRWA join CDFG in establishing Kings River Fisheries Management Program.